Good morning. The Daily Viz, as you might be able to tell, has gotten a facelift. I’ve migrated the site from Tumblr to WordPress and installed NPR’s open-source Argo theme. The new platform offers more features, such as link roundups. These will become daily features in addition to posts of my own work:
Four Easy Visualization Mistakes to Avoid – “Creating a great visualization is not as hard as it seems. Provided you have some interesting data and an effective tool with which to visualize it, a little bit of thoughtful design will lead to a decent result. That said, there are some mistakes that are very easy to make, but can ruin even a thoughtfully-made piece. Here are four data visualization mistakes you should avoid.” Visua.ly
Visualizing Twitter – “In the framework of our researches, we are focusing on twitter visualization. This social platform indeed offers several opportunities for data visualization: social ties analysis, links between geography and themes/languages, real-time visualization of a particular topic (like a conference), or again to analyse a past topic and its ‘storyfication’.” Density Design
How Open Is Your Internet? – “The OpenNet Initiative has analysed government interference with the internet in 74 countries. The level of tampering in four categories is graded out of four in each country. See how each country is ranked below.” The Guardian