New York illustrator Dan Meth has created a Trilogy Meter, that is, a graphic representation of the varying quality of movie trilogies. Before you get angry, remember that this is only his opinion, even so, I’m going to have to have a word with him about the Back to the Future one…

via ffffound!

I thought I’d post these amazing images, which visualise data from the globe, the above graphic showing global population density. I originally found them appropriately on Ffffound! They’re based on data from the G-econ project. I just thought they were a lovely way to visualise the data, better than a spreadsheet anyway…

Here are a couple more:

Average annual rainfall:

Distance from the coast:

See more in this Flickr set.

This is a great piece of graphic visualisation and typography, a live representation of the latest news headlines. It used the Google news aggregator, check it out…

marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm