Infographic : Best of the visualisation web… December 2020

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from December 2020.

Notes: the items listed may not have been necessarily published during this month, rather discovered during the month. Some links point to paywall items. The details shown below label the platform/site each item is published on – not necessarily the actual author – and a brief selective description.

Visualisations & Infographics

Covering latest visualisation, infographic or other related design works.

Nightingale | ‘My Plastic Footprint: a Physical Data Visualisation Project’

C82 | ‘A Brief Visual Exploration of “A Dictionary of Typography”‘

David Bauer | ‘Vaccination Flags — the more people are vaccinated, the more colour returns.*’

New York Times | ‘Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?’

@maartenlambrechts | December is the mega-month of lists so rather than duplicate, let me point you to Maarten’s terrific annual compilation of the various ‘best works of 2020’ lists

Mundo Deportivo | ‘Messi surpasses the record of goals of Pelé in a club’ [Translated]

Nightingale | ‘“Not on our watch.”’

New York Times | ‘Chinatown, Resilient and Proud’

Pudding | ‘The historical cost of light’

@AmyCesal | ‘I had the great pleasure of being an instructor for the data viz @MICA_MPS program and I helped students develop their capstone projects. Some of the amazing projects they accomplished in this thread!’

@adamrpearce | ‘Why Some Models Leak Data’

Tableau Public | ‘Daily Social Distancing Hoodies’ by Chris DeMartini

Reuters | ‘World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster’

Financial Times | ‘How London grew into a financial powerhouse’

New York Times | ‘Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show you How’ (with an AR surprise feature at the end)

@ksituan | For some countries, a cartogram doesn’t quite work out…

@maartenzam | ‘…the slo-mo on this animated chart is like an annotation on a static chart’

The Guardian | ‘Covid chaos: how the UK handled the coronavirus crisis’

@sdbernard | ‘It’s that time of year where I share my favourite maps.’

@PostGraphics | ‘This has been a hard year for everyone, and we want to recognize the incredible work our colleagues have done through it all.’

@blprnt | “Whatcha doing today?” “Making birds.” “What?” “Making birds.” [Thread]

Articles

These are references to written articles, discourse or interviews about visualisation.

The Guardian | ‘Go figure: how Britain became a nation of armchair statisticians’

@maartenzam | ‘Yesterday datvislisbao was so kind to host me, and let me ramble about 10 of my maps and the tools I used to make them.’

Design Week | ‘How can design help communicate the Covid vaccination roll out?’

POCIT | People Of Color in Tech, Episode 29 with Mona Chalabi

Observablehq | ‘Reflecting on “Vote Cones”’

GISPO | ‘#30DayMapChallenge 2020 – bigger and better!’

@ECONdailycharts | ‘Digital humanities started as a niche pursuit. Now, it is advancing, and growing rapidly. Here’s how it could change the way we study the arts’

Nightingale | ‘Telling Stories With Data & Music: Exploring a new approach to sonification’

Learning & Development

These links cover presentations, tutorials, podcasts, academic papers, case-studies, how-tos etc.

Art The Science | ‘Science Artist Residency: Between the Sand’

@MeasurablesPod | Podcast with Norwich City First Team Data Analyst Rob Suddaby, discussing ‘making the career change to sports analytics, working with data visualization tools like Tableau, and more!’

@borism | ‘The SENSES team at @uclab_potsdam has been doing truly amazing work! The team has launched a new learn module on climate change scenarios – every week!’

Reflections in Design | ‘Viz For Social Good – Part 2, The Build’

Youtube | ‘Update Excel Charts in InDesign Documents ft. Nolan Haims’

C82 | ‘Making of A Brief Visual Exploration of A Dictionary of Typography’