data visualization

Britain from above, a BBC documentary, GPS traces from airline flights scurried to locations and visualized in this video. This was number one in the 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2008.

Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data — which is oftentimes cryptic — to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers.

Here is another more appropriate on the Internet about Internet traffic.