What Are Your Favorite Data Visualizations in Recent Memory?

It's time for a reader discussion, open thread, etc. Today's question is:

What are your favorite data visualizations in recent memory?

It can be something I've posted or it can be something I missed. To get your memory going, you might want to go through the archives. Are there any visualizations that made you stop and go wow?

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14 responses to "What Are Your Favorite Data Visualizations in Recent Memory?"

chicago356
May 30, 2008, 4:51 am

I’ve been really impressed by the somewhat unconventional network diagrams done by The Arbitrarian, like http://arbitrarian.wordpress.c.....he-colors/ (colors), http://arbitrarian.wordpress.c.....ifference/ (politics), and http://arbitrarian.wordpress.c.....-networks/ (basketball).

Richard Atkinson
May 30, 2008, 8:04 am

Hans Rosling… no question.

Pity his technology has disappeared into the Google Borg!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92

Tony Rose
May 30, 2008, 9:54 am

Definitely this one about Manny’s quest for 500 homers!

http://flowingdata.com/2008/05.....00-homers/

Chris Mueller
May 30, 2008, 2:06 pm

The Flickr galaxy awesome, showing a great user interface and a glimpse of 3d on the web…
http://flowingdata.com/2008/05.....ag-galaxy/

and I’m also a big fan of the “Life of the Cell” video:
http://www.moma.org/exhibition.....ind/#/118/

CTV
May 30, 2008, 3:59 pm

I’m a big fan of the Baby Name Voyager:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

simple, attractive, interactive, informative, elegant

Nathan
May 30, 2008, 8:51 pm

@Chris: that’s some sexy scientific visualization! i think it belongs in a scifi movie.

thanks for participating, everyone. i guess i’ll chime in with one my recent favorites - harris and kamvar:

http://flowingdata.com/2008/02.....nd-kamvar/

Clint
May 31, 2008, 12:27 am

Nice use of Google Chart API: xefer twitter charts
May be down or slow due to twitter flakiness, the output can be seen here, at my blog

Tim
May 31, 2008, 8:04 am

The best I’ve seen in recent years:
http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.gif

Nathan
May 31, 2008, 12:28 pm

@Tim: haha, lovely. my suspicions have been confirmed.

Tom Carden
May 31, 2008, 8:14 pm

I’m really liking http://www.akamai.com/html/tec.....aviz1.html right now.

Srikanth
May 31, 2008, 11:21 pm

@Tom - That one is pure awesome.

I also liked this one a lot. http://leebyron.com/what/daylight/

Chris Hane
Jun 2, 2008, 12:00 pm

Does anyone know the technology Hans Rosling used to create his time movie in his talk on world health, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 ?

Chris Mueller
Jun 2, 2008, 1:39 pm

@Chris Hane: At least part of the visualization is GapMinder/trendalyzer, which is available from Google:

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/

Nathan
Jun 2, 2008, 4:41 pm

Chris M is right. Here’s the link to the actual GapMinder-esque visualization:

http://code.google.com/apis/vi.....chart.html

There’s a straightforward example that shows you how to use the API. I think it links up with Google Docs.

What Are Your Favorite Data Visualizations in Recent Memory?