Now this is more like it

The Growth of US Newspapers, 1690-2011 from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.


Really cool visualization that shows the power of seeing something over time while maintaining a simple UI.  (similar to what Hans Rosling did.. which I talked a little bit about here).  Simple data, powerful presentation.  This was done with public domain data, and was put together by some people at Stanford (go Cardinal, life without Harbaugh starts soon)