The best of Visual Loop – December2012 • Inspired Magazine

This is a guest post by Tiago Veloso, the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization. He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Here we are with the recap of what we published on Visual Loop during the month of December. News about data visualization, exclusive articles and amazing infographic portfolios are just some of the content featured in our website. And it’s been exciting to see the awesome feedback our readers are giving, with the number of guest contributions rising month after amonth.

So, if you have created an interesting data visualization project, feel free to reach out and we’ll be happy to feature it!

Hope you enjoy the best of Visual Loop in December!

Featured articles:

Resources, round-ups and selections of visual information goodies. The U.S election was one of the main subjects, but there were other interesting topics, like the works done during the Global Visualizing Marathon, and even some infographic inspiration from Iran:

(infographic: Persian Infographic Team)

Another 30 interactive resources about the US election | One day before the election, a send selection of interactive visualizations about the U.S presidential race
15 examples of the work created at the 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon | Event gathered more than 1,000 students from 150 universities in 30 countries
Hubway data visualization challenge winners | See some of the works created from the data generated by half a million Hubway rides.
30 examples of the art of mapping personal habits | A good way to start experimenting with data visualization
Examples of Infographic Design from Iran | Works that inspired the First Persian Infographic Festival
25 great data visualizations made with Tableau Public | See examples of interactive infographics made with one of the most complete free data viz tools out there.
Get your daily dose of charts with these sites | For most cases a good old chart is more than enough to show a story. See where you’ll find these graphs.

Cool projects:

Either found by us or written by the authors themselves, here are some of the coolest data viz projects we featured in December:

(Cities sorted according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) index – How livable are cities | Roxana Torre)

The US Election 2012. With burgers & fries | The debate on foreign policy as a plate of fries? Campaign spending as burgers? See it here.
Dancing Factorization Diagrams | An interactive promenade of primes, composites, and their constituents
Awe: Where sports and art meet, by Deborah Klaassen | Epic sports moments visualized by design trio Accept & Proceed and performance coaching agency Planet K2.
U.S. Presidential Race: Global mentions on Social Media | Visual breakdown of 100.000 messages on Twitter, Facebook and Google+
Bodynomics, by Roann Louw | See, Grasp, Know: Making health statistics more appealing
Racist Tweets post-US election mapped | Interactive map shows the racist response to Obama’s re-election
Tableau’s 2012 Election Viz Gallery | Dozens of interactive data visualizations to explore the entire electoral history of the United States.
Cartographic mixtures with MapFrappe | Compare countries, oceans, buildings and monuments on Google Maps.
There is a Renaissance Happening Around You: What Facebook Events Should Look Like | Allowing everyone to discover everything happening around them.
How livable are cities? by Roxana Torre | Detailed explanation of the project that aims to answer the question: Where is the best city in the world to live?
Interactive Map: If Israel and Gaza were your neighbors | What area would be under missile range if Israel and Gaza were your neighbors?

Interactive Inspiration:

Our weekly selection of Interactive graphics from all over the world. This month, we gathered more than 100 examples, like these ones:

(image: Paul Lamere | The Infinite Jukebox)

(image: Moritz Stefaner, Studio NAND, Jens Franke | FIFA)

(image: Ria Novosti)

Infographic Portfolios:

Every week, a new portfolio from a world-class infographic designer. Here are last month’s featured works:

Portfolio of the Week – Guillermo Munro | The multidimensional talent and passion of the artist also known as Memuco

Portfolio of the Week – Belinda Ivey | Here’s our first featured infographic designer from the United States
Portfolio of the Week – Tiffany Farrant-Gonzalez | The information design director at JESS3 shares her story and a bit of her work
Portfolio of the Week – Potashova Masha | This time, a long trip to Moscow for our first portfolio from Russia

Interviews

Brief conversations with people that are a reference in the field of data visualization, either globally or locally. Last month, we had the honor of interviewing Jaime Serra, considered the most influential infographic designer of the past 20 years.

Talking with… Jaime Serra | Exclusive interview with one of the most respected infographic designers in the world.

I don’t think that we have to offer all the data the reader just because we have it, our job is to select those we consider really important for our readers and offer them in a simple way. That is, doing a major journalistic work: editing.

And that’s it for this round-up. As we said before, we do post more content so feel free to join us on Facebook and Twitter for daily updates about infographics and data visualization, and we’ll be back next month with the best of Visual Loop.

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Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso is the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization. He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn.