By Janusz Kamieński.

Infographic of the year.

Visual timeline using SIMILE as a plugin for WP.

Clever comparison tool by Dan Benjamin that visualises the shared followers and friends of two Twitter users.

Baekdal has some interesting data visualisations about mass media and attention over time.

jQuery plugin that can be used to generate a decent range of sparkline graphs for small-scale data visualisation.

John Emerson researches coverage of wars in Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur using the New York Times Article Search API and concludes there has been a massive discrepancy between coverage of the former (very little) and the latter (a lot), despite the fact that many more lives have been lost in conflict in the DRC.