Two amazing examples of the power of good graphic presentation: Here’s the most wonderful dynamic web-page chart showing the churning rise-and-fall of popularity in baby names, boy and girl, across 100 years. I don’t know where the data’s from — wait, I do, it’s from the Social Security Administration! — but it’s presented in a glorious interface (reminds me of Edward Tufte‘s beloved graphic of Napoleon’s Russian campaign). Go, type your name in, see how the mighty monikers rise and fall on the waves of human fickleness! [link courtesy Steven Johnson]
Over at Flickr, there’s this cool series of charts exploring the web of inter-relationships of users of that photo-sharing service. Interesting stuff for the online social anthropologists, but what I dig is the reflexivity: the study’s offered up as just one more batch of Flickr images.
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