visualizing data

Particle physicists spend a lot of time thinking about how to visualize large data sets. Here are
a couple cool examples of data visualization from other fields:

This 2010 census data is irresistible:
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

This map of Facebook connections is beautiful (and timely, given Time's choice for Person of the
Year):
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919

And here's a nice profile of TED star Hans Rosling:
http://www.economist.com/node/17663585?story_id=17663585&CFID=156801741&CFTOKEN=29469239
Matt Bellis used the Google Motion Charts software to make a really cool interactive chart of the
properties of heavy mesons. Ask him to show it to you sometime.

Enjoy!
Wells