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http://www.guardian.co.uk/data

Data journalism and data visualization | News | guardian.co.uk

The UKs first Open-data Cities Conference will take place at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange today.
This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy , or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. http://www.visual-literacy.org/

Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business

Knowledge Domain Map

http://www.elab.usilu.net/usi10anni/knowledge_domain_maps/visualization_scholars/ The emerging field of visualization studies examines the use of pictures to improve the access to information, the quality of software, or the communication of knowledge. Prominent research fields in this area are information visualization (a domain of computer science), scientific visualization, or software visualization. Other highly relevant research sectors for the understanding of pictures in communication are design studies and the psychology of perception.
http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds