I’ve been play­ing with The New York Times’ Visu­al­iza­tion Lab lately and am enjoy­ing it quite a lot, even though the cur­rent data sets you can play with are quite lim­ited. How­ever, the sys­tem uses IBM’s ‘Many Eyes’ tool, a project of their Visual Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Lab, and if you head there you can reg­is­ter and upload your own data sets.

On the topic of data visu­al­i­sa­tion, I’ve also been going through the archives of Pic­tures of Num­bers (via Kot­tke); a site pro­vid­ing “prac­ti­cal tips and tech­niques for busy researchers on improv­ing their data pre­sen­ta­tion”. It reminds me some­what of Junk Charts.

(A good resource for ‘info viz’ links is the ‘Book­marks’ sec­tion of Eager Eyes… far right side­bar, under the login box.)