About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. Some blogs are no longer in commission, and lots of new blogs have sprung up (and died).
Today, I went through my feed reader again, and here's what came up. Coincidentally, 37 blogs came up again. (Update: added two I forgot, so 39 now.) I'm subscribed to a lot more than this since I don't unsubscribe to dried up feeds. But this list is restricted to blogs that have updated in the past two months and are at least four months old.
Design and Aesthetics
- information aesthetics — By Andrew Vande Moere, the first blog I found on visualization five something years ago.
- Well-formed data — Another one of the oldies but goodies. The blog of Moritz Stefaner, known for lots of projects around these parts
- blprnt.blg — Blog of Jer Thorp, who has recently been on a github binge. See also blprnt.tmblr
- Fathom — Ben Fry-run studio talks about interesting things
- feltron — Nicholas Felton's tumblr with quick bits of delight
- Tulp Inspiration — Another tumblr, this one run by Jan Willem Tulp
Statistical and Analytical Visualization
- Eager Eyes — I think the second blog I found on visualization. Written by Robert Kosara, research-focused
- Junk Charts — Kaiser Fung finds the not-so-good and explains how to improve them. See also sister blog Numbers Rule Your World
- Visual Business Inteliigence — Stephen Few's business-centric musings
- Visualising Data — Relatively newer
- Data Pointed — Weird and cooky, in a good way
- Effective Graphs — Fundamentals of graph-making
- Jim Vallandingham — Releases good code sometimes
- Excel Charts — Despite the name, provides some useful information for beginners
- Statistical Graphics and more — Through the eyes of a statistician
Journalism
- The Daily Viz — By Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPR
- chartsnthings — Kevin Quealy of The New York Times talks process
- Infographics news — Highlights news graphics
- Matthew Ericson — Deputy graphics director at The New York Times
General Visualization
- Neoformix — Features a variety of his projects
- Datavisualization.ch — Different visualization work, but lately on process of client work
- Periscopic — Information visualization firm, do good with data
- vis4 — Gregor Aisch produces a mix of work
- Chart Porn — Mix of charts and graphs
- Communicating with data — Jerome Cukier from the OECD
Maps
- Stamen — Map-focused design and technology studio, sometimes open source releases
- Cartastrophe — Daniel Huffman talks good maps
- Floatingsheep — Geography hodge podge
- indiemaps — Usually on the how of maps
- Kelso's Corner — Nathaniel Kelso, cartographer at Stamen
- tecznotes — Michal Migurski of Stamen gets into the nitty gritty of online map making
- The Marauding Carto-nerd — Kenneth Field, research cartographer
Data and Statistics
- Datablog — On The Guardian, poster of datasets and graphics
- Juice Analytics — Putting business data to action
- The Numbers Guy — Examines the way numbers are used
- Infochimps — Data supplier and hackers unite
- Civil Statistician — By Census Bureau statistician Jerzy Wieczorek
- Revolutions — Frequent statistics goodies
- Simply Statistics — The title says it all
