Reveling in this. /via @the_millions

Oooh, shiny.

via @flowingdata

@mericson of the @nytimes on alternatives to geographic data visualization

In awe.

(Spring reading!)

Heart this.

Still pondering this one. Will probably ponder for years to come.

"A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure"

Asked by Gordon Brown what the UK could do to use the internet properly, Tim Berners-Lee replied that the government should put all its data online. He later reported Brown saying, "OK, let's do it."

The World Bank released its 2010 World Development Indicators for free, accompanied by a gorgeous visualization tool

An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. // Pretty freaking awesome.

This makes me want to go find some geographic data just so I can make it look pretty.

All these exercises—in which anybody with a bright idea can use government data—seek to merge two cultures: the risk-averse ethos of the civil service, and the free-wheeling spirit of open-source developers, who seek continuous incremental change and see failure as a step to improvement.

Exactly.

survey data from over 300,000 OKCupid users, analyzed & annotated, with pretty infographics