Some of these are really good, clever and interesting. The what makes good info design by David Mccandless at informationisbeautiful.net controversial venn diagram usage which as I mentioned is good for a beginner.
I posted some curiousities here:
http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/forum/topics/what-makes-an-information or you can read more at my paper
http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2009/11/how-do-visualisations-enhnce-the-communication-of-data.html
some great humorous visual of people entering an Sphincter which makes me think of Patch Adams with Robin Williams howdi gynos and
people depicting fleas on a picture of a dog.
reminds me off,
These are two good datavis examples I have seen.
Found
thesis.armina.info/ , usually finds great examples of data vis. this was a contents page to student magaine of their work.
banksy, think it was
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/ great collection. I liked this subtle humour.
Again humour, think it was Claude Aschenbrenner at serialmapper.com, flow chart to define your career title.
this did the blog rounds, info aesthetics, cool infographics, flowing data I think. it reminded me of Minards carte figuartive, Tuftes best statistical
graphic ever.
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