It’s nice to remember that graphs don’t have to be all serious. The venerable pie chart, a staple of useless business meetings everywhere can also serve as a comical source of enlightenment.
Also known as the ‘pac man’ tautology this graph (via boing boing) says both everything and nothing in one beautiful picture.
Sadly only Leonardo and Raphael are more well known for their work as artists and not ninja turtles in this graph from xkcd. Donatello is the big loser here, although he contributed significantly to sculpture with his use of shallow reliefs he was much more memorable as the smart ninja turtle.
Of course, there has been a lot of activity with serious graph work, sharing data and all that. New up and coming is both swivel, a very web 2.0 data/graph sharing service and the slightly more stoic IBM manyeyes.
We’ll talk about these a little later on.
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Hi there,
Thanks for the mention about Swivel. Love that PacMan graph.
Brian Mulloy
CEO & Cofounder
http://www.swivel.com