Paper.li and Data Visualization

Paper.li (Smallrivers) at Startup Finals, LeWeb10 (Photo credit: paulamarttila)

Paper.li is a content curation service. They are based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) - Innovation Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

I subscribe to over 10 data visualization and infographic newsletters via Paper.li. For three months, I reviewed each of them daily and used Twitter to retweet the top articles. 

I also publish my own daily newsletter:  Garry’s Gazette for DataViz


Following are the newsletters I'm subscribed to (in order of most viewers):

The #infographic Daily (Top News Spotters)Paper.li community 

The #DataViz DailyPaper.li community

The #infographics DailyPaper.li community

Opendata and Visualization (Top News Spotters)Pierre Crevosier

The Infographic ObserverMike Wirth

The Infographics and Mindmaps NewsOuti Lammi

The Visualization Magazine (Top News Spotters) (Innovation)Nelly Nellson

The Data Visualization DailyPaulDz - DataPic

The #visualization DailyPaper.li community

Data VisualizationMathieu Elie

Infographics! (Top News Spotters)Claudia Smalley

Insight on Research Daily (Top News Spotters)Duncan Malcolm 

The Datavis DailyBenjamin Wiederkehr

The Douglas Locke DailyDouglas Locke

Lolo's Infographics DigestLaurent Nicolas

Paper.li was a Red Herring Europe Top 100 Award winner for 2012. 

Online Marketing Trends using Infomous

DiRT - Digital Research Tools Wiki

Image via Wikipedia

DiRT - Plant seeds. Grow ideas. - I like the name and the garden theme. What I especially like, however, is the treasure chest of information about data visualization tools. An absolutely outstanding resource in a wiki format.

Examples of Data Visualization

Subjects include the aging population, crowded prisons and the value of caregivers.

Some of my collections can be found:

via Swivel.com
via Many-eyes.com
via Flickr.com

Jobs in Data Visualization

Image by T A Y S E R via FlickrWhat jobs are there in data visualization?

Thanks to Flowing Data, we get a very comprehensive picture of the bright future of data visualization.

FlowingData - Strength in Numbers

FlowingData is a website with a wealth of information about data visualization.

To get a good idea of how much is there, check out the Archive.

Also, it's worth it to visit the FlowingData Forums.

Photo Sharing Sites - Flickr vs Photobucket

It's interesting to see the people count (U.S. unique visitors) of Flickr and Photobucket over the last year for highest people count. Here is the chart using Many-eyes.com for data visualization and Compete.com for analytics.

Take the Data Language Survey

What is a collection of charts and numbers - a dashboard, report or summary?
Image via Wikipedia

If you were able to add text to a point on a chart for other people to read, how would you refer to the text?

For example, "I added a(n) _____ to that data point."

Comment?
Annotation?
Note?
Something else?

Swivel's blog, Tasty Data Goodies, has a great little Data Language Survey.

Thanks, Swivel. In this Information Age and with the future of data visualization, we need the help to communicate better.

Viewzi - An Adventure in Data Visualization

If you want a search engine that screams data visualization, it's Viewzi. Relatively new, their latest monthly increase is 25%.

Give it a try but plan to spend some time in an adventure of innovation, exploration and visualization.



Thanks to Robin Good, always an amazing source for exciting sites, for pointing out Viewzi.

technorati tags: viewzi, robin good, data visualization, information, visualization, grjenkin, garrysblog

Visualizing Overcrowded Prisons

The data for this visualization is from the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, State of California.

California's 2008 data is due out in July 2008. Prison overcrowding is expected to increase even more.