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They ask us compare angles, but we tend to underestimate acute angles, overestimate obtuse angles, and take horizontally bisected angles as much larger than their vertical counterparts.

The piece’s thesis: that data visualization cannot save you, is certainly one worth taking to heart.

(via Idea of the Day)

A very cool short video from “the Beeb.” My favorite is probably the view of London taxis during a day, but they’re all pretty good visualizations.

(via Gems Sty)

In today’s “awesome-looking but mostly purposeless charts” category, I submit Chris Harrison’s Digg Rings.

(via Information Aestetics)

I linked to a part of Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns project a few weeks ago, without recognizing it as such. Neatorama has compiled some valuable links to his work, and pointed out the awesome video in the title link. Their summary:

In 2005, Aaron Koblin took all of the air traffic over United States data, as seen by the FAA, and visualized it in a beautiful animation. Aaron’s work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the “Celestial Mechanics” project (eye candy!) by Scott Hesels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA.

Remember this? Well, people have been working on ways to revisualize the color names that Dolores Lab crowd-sourced. Color Flower is my favorite, but the others are nice too.