Major Infovis Blogs and Feeds:

• Data Mining
• Eager Eyes
• FlowingData
• information aesthetics
• Many Eyes
• visualcomplexity

(Relatively) Fresh news:

• Loudness in popular music (Jan. 5)
• Geography of Netflix Rentals (Jan. 10)
• What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving (Nov. 24)
• Jobless Rate for People Like You (Nov. 9)
• OpenStreetMap Edits (Jan 2009)

Josh On

• They Rule (2004)

Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg

• Web Seer (2009)
• Fleshmap (2008)
• Flickr Flow (2009)

Martin Wattenberg

• The Shape of Song (2001)
• Name Voyager (2005)
• The Apartment (2000)
• Color Code (2005)

Ben Fry

• Zipdecode (2004)
• AllStreets (2008)
• The Preservation of Favoured Traces (2009)
• Deconstructulator (2003), Distellamap
• Shop Activity (2001)
• Salary vs. Performance (2006-2009)

Jason Salavon

• Lots of projects

Jonathan Harris

• We Feel Fine (2006)
• Lots of projects

Aaron Koblin

• The Sheep Market (2006)
• Flight Patterns (2006) + more

Brad Paley

• Typeface Outlines
• TextArc

Lisa Jevbratt

• Every 1:1 (1999)

Shahee Ilyas

• Flags by Colour

Jer Thorp (Blprnt)

• Two sides of the same story (2009)

Chris Harrison

• Word Spectrum

Stamen Design

• Lots of projects

Reading:

• Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics
  (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/artistic-infovis.pdf)
  Fernanda B. Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.

Example tools:

• Twitter & Processing (Jer Thorp), see also this
• NYTimes + Processing (Jer Thorp), e.g this
• Flickr API + Processing and this (FlickrJ)