I love a good data visualisation. At the end of last year, Flowing Data published a list of the 5 best data visualisations of 2008, featuring a couple that I hadn't seen before but which are quite exceptional, so are worth posting:
1. This short film, from the BBC's Britain From Above series, visualises the 7,500 aircraft that crowd into Britain's skies every day in a quite mesmorising way:
2. 'I Want You To Want Me' from Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar (of We Feel Fine fame), visualises the world of online dating. Data is collected from various dating sites every few hours. Dating profiles are represented by individual balloons...floating...hoping to find their match:
