I have uploaded the introductory lecture from Monday to Scribd, as seen above. The list of suggestions for possible data sources and comments on possible challenges are at the very end of the document. The visualization examples I used in the lecture are listed below.

In the section on self-ethnography I made rather heavy use of Nicholas Felton’s Feltron Report as a valuable reference. Please see his web site for more information on that project, you can even purchase hardcopies of the report for your own pleasure.

• Bill Cheswick: Internet Mapping Project
• Ben Fry: HapMap
• Martin Wattenberg: Shape of Song
• Moritz Stefaner: Map Your Moves
• SmartMoney.com: Map of the Market
• Marcos Weskamp: Newsmap
• Manuel Lima: Visual Complexity
• David McCandless: Billion-dollar-o-gram (see also his excellent TED Talk)
• OKCupid blog: Statistics from online dating
• Simon Elvins: Silent London

• Nicholas Felton: Feltron Annual Report
• RescueTime
• Drinkingdiary.com
• dailydiarycom
• last.fm
• Daytum
• your.flowingdata.com