By Andy Kirk | September 20, 2017 | Collections

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 July 2017.

Visualisations & Infographics

Includes static and interactive visualisation examples, infographics and galleries/collections of relevant imagery.

SCMP | 'Welcome to the South China Morning Post's collection of infographics made for print. '

FT | ...And here's a place for all the FT's visual journalism

Datavis Club | 'A small visual exploration of the episodes and guests of the Data Stories podcast'

New York Times | '110 NFL Brains - A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players - 110 were found to have C.T.E'

ABC | 'Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people'

Tableau | 'Daylight duration' (+checkout the rest of Yvan's excellent gallery of Tableau work)

RP Online | 'Our life as a commuter' showing the in- and out-flow of commuters around the cities of Germany

New York Times | 'Baseball's Upward Trend Is Leaving Some Players Grounded' (perfect use-case of a polar chart)

Core77 | 'Clever Designs for Perpetual Calendars... that all have one glaring design flaw'

dwtkns | Speaking of portfolios, Derek Watkins' really is something else

Trump in One Word | 'Describe Donald Trump in one word', love the map of where words were submitted from

Flowing Data | 'Divorce and Occupation: Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates. Some towards lower.'

Hindustan Times | 'Find the perfect run or walk, anywhere in the world'

The Pudding | 'Free Willy and Flipper by the Numbers'

SBS | 'Interactive: How diverse is my suburb?'

New York Times | 'It's Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.'

Ito World | 'Airspace of the #TourdeFrance!'

FT | 'London's 'regeneration': the backdrop to Grenfell rage' (featuring swarm plot action)

Penalty | 'An Alternatve to Radars for Visualisng Football Data' (featuring yet more swarm plot action)

YouTube | 'Off the Staff: An experiment in visualizing notes from music scores.' by Nicholas Rougeux

Washington Post | 'Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests'

Vimeo | 'Red Bull at Night x ByBORRE: The Sixth Sense - Case movie' by Clever Franke

Twitter | 'A Voronoi diagram of people enjoying the sun in Bryant Park.'

Earth Observatory | 'Sea Level Rise Hits Home at NASA: Watching Waters Rise Right Outside the Front Door'

Morgenpost | 'In the West Antarctic, a gigantic iceberg has broken down from the ice shelf... Move it on the map and transfer the dimensions to your area.'

Xocas | and here's another similar piece 'How big is the iceberg?'

Tableau | 'Does your MP represent your views?'

Washington Post | 'Why so many NHL and NBA teams have won back-to-back championships'

Flowing Data | 'Summary Statistics Tell You Little About the Big Picture'

ProPublica | 'The Immigration Effect: There's a Way for President Trump to Boost the Economy by Four Percent, But He Probably Won't Like It.'

The Upshot | 'The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures'

Washington Post | 'Here's every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime'

FiveThirtyEight | 'Two Minutes Of Darkness With 20,000 Strangers'

New York Times | 'Two Weeks on Ice in McMurdo Station, Antarctica'

Via Velox | 'Visualizing GPS-tracked bike rides to better understand cycling behaviour'

Webkid | 'Visualization of data along public transportation lines in Berlin'

Stamen | 'Visualizing infant vaccination rates for the World Health Organization'

Quartz | 'Watch this extorted money get lost in the expanse of the blockchain'

SB Nation | Don't quite know how to describe it, just experience it

Articles

The emphasis on these items is that they are less about visualisation images and are more article-focused, so includes discussion, discourse, interviews and videos

Medium | 'Explaining the Gap: Visualizing One's Predictions Improves Recall and Comprehension of Data'

Tin Lizzie | 'Exploring Histograms, an essay