Earlier this morning found a wonderful bit of information visualization, graphing the patterns in academic publication over 3 centuries (!). Chris Harrison‘s “Visualizing the Royal Society Archive” (found via Information Aesthetics).
Beautiful graphs.
I have a little criticism for his methodology (why not remove stop words? why graph on a 45 degree slant? why not log your unigrams instead of square-root?), but regardless this is both neat and beautiful.
There is a soft spot in my heart for information treated as art.