I’m a huge fan of IBM’s Many Eyes page for mocking up quick, interactive visualizations, and for generally checking to see if data is ‘interesting’ without investing a large amount of time.

You can find the page with all of my many eyes data sets and visualizations here, or see a few featured projects below:

Changing location of US Creatives by County:

A comparison treemap showing census-supplied densities of people employed in ‘creative’ professions, 1990 vs 2000. A little busy, but it does a solid job of showing the mass-migration to the sun belt of ‘yuppie’ types during the 90s.

Click the image to the right or here to see it in full.

US Electoral Votes in each State, per-Person

A map of just how much each person’s vote ‘matters’ with respect to electors. Clearly the sparsely populated states win out here.

Click the image to the right or here to see it in full.

US Employment by Employer Size

This one uses the super cool time-treemap to compare relative proportions of the workers for each ’size’ of company.  It’s neat to see the growth in various sectors of the economy year to year.

Click the image to the right or here to see it in full.

You can see all the rest of my visualizations, as well as gain access to the underlying data here.