Best examples of data visualisation?

Question

I love data visualisation and to spread that love I thought we could share our favourite examples of data visualisation:

Chess moves http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

Chris Harrison's Visualisations http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/visualization.html

I especially like the bible and Wikipedia visualisations.

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If you're interested in creating your own visualisations a good place to start would be to check out processing.js (http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/).

Answer 1

Information Aesthetics's feed is on my home page and has been the source of many interesting visualizations since I've placed it there.

Answer 2

This is a recent favorite The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008.

Blew my mind is college Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812.

And always check out Tufte.

Answer 3

I find codeswarm really amazing. Check out the video of eclipse.

Answer 4

I always found Gource to be pretty interesting; check out some of the samples. Histories of git projects.