“Beau­ti­ful Visu­al­iza­tion – Look­ing at data through the eyes of experts” is out (at least the ebook edi­tion). I am proud to be among the authors, along with giants like Aaron Koblin, Fer­nanda Viega and Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg, Jer Thorp or Jes­sica Hagy. I mostly flipped through the book up to now, but from what I can see, it com­prises a great col­lec­tion of case stud­ies and reflec­tions by prac­ti­tion­ers from the field. So if you always won­dered about the sto­ries and con­sid­er­a­tions behind great visu­al­iza­tions, this could be a very use­ful resource. My chap­ter deals with the process behind X by Y, and is avail­able as a pre-print down­load (2.3MB pdf). I would love to see this book printed, too — if you feel the same, why not pre-order the print edi­tion to speed up the process?

Also note­wor­thy: All roy­al­ties from this book will be donated to Archi­tec­ture for Human­ity.

Just a quick post to let you know that I put a new project online: revisit – a real–time visu­al­iza­tion of the last few hun­dred tweets around a topic. In con­trast to the usual twit­ter walls, it try to cap­ture some of the tem­po­ral dynam­ics as well as the con­ver­sa­tional aspects of twit­ter. Scroll down for cus­tomiza­tion options! Hope you like it — it will be at dis­play at the see con­fer­ence tomor­row, but for those of you who are not there, here is the live ver­sion so you can see what you are missing :)