Best of FlowingData: August 2008

Last month, FlowingData had a pretty good month moving up to rank 4,130 on Technorati and growing from about 4,000 subscribers to 4,500, so our community has grown a bit. Thank you to all of you who have been spreading the word!

In case you missed them, here are some of the best posts from August:

• Watch the Rise of Gasoline Retail Prices, 1993 - 2008
• It's Like Google Maps with Sim City 2000 - OnionMap
• Map of Olympic Medals in Bubble + Geographic Form
• Britain From Above - Beautiful Use of Satellite Technology
• Visualize Genomes and Genomic Data - Circos
• Beginner's Guide to FlowingData - A Guided Tour
• Is There a Market for Premium Online Data Visualization?
• Awesome Olympics Coverage By The New York Times
• Many Eyes Adds Wordle to its Extensive Visualization Toolbox
• 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart