I’m currently at a talk by Martin Wattenburg, who runs a fantastic visualization site from IBM research. Here’s my favorite visualization to date:
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/api/v1/snapshot/89ade5ae14e1dd2c0114ff7988ad0b67.js?width=500&height=400Apparently this got an immediate reaction from someone with a different partisan orientation:
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/api/v1/snapshot/89ade5ae151931b2011523c0fdbc03c1.js?width=500&height=400The site is chock full of interesting tidbits. Here is a chart of the inflation-adjusted sized of historical bailouts. Here is a graph of personality types by state. Here is a graph comparing historical immigration rates.
The best thing is that you can upload your own data sets, choose your visualization, and share it in a web 2.0-savvy manner. It’s a really cool site, and I encourage you to check it out.
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