I am consulting on a soon-to-be-launch Drupal project. When development started a few months ago, the first key decision was on which Drupal core version will be develop on.
This reminds me a bit of Death and Tax. Below is a visualization of the components that made up the consumer price index. In another word, this is what US Bureau of Labor Statistics take as the proportion of an average US consumer's spending. The colour represents year-on-year change of proportion of that item in the overall basket, compared to 1 year ago.
Out of the many hobbies and passions that I have, two that also benefit my work are typography and data visualization. (I'm a "Bringhurst":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bringhurst and "Tufte":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte groupie.) I spent hundreds of hours crafting charts and tables, making sure the hard work in generating the data pays full dividend.
I was predictably excited when "Swivel":http://swivel.com/ and "Many Eyes":http://many-eyes.com/ came out, and took quite a bit of time playing around with it. In the end, I found myself more interested in the data sets available, rather than the visualization tools. They have huge potentials, but are not quire _there_ yet.
Today, I read "a very good review":http://eagereyes.org/VisCrit/Swivel-vs-Many-Eyes.html comparing the two on EagerEyes.org. Robert Rosara put into words some of the comments that I had and many more. I am adding this site to my reading list. (Apart from the very good content, the site is also nicely done in Drupal)
