Pardon the expression, but there seems to be a real "surge" in infographics and visual statistics news in recent days.  This post on Tim O'Reilly blog (an increasingly informative site, I find) points us to some interesting tools out of the IBM shop.  Be sure to check out the site for "Many Eyes."  Impressive, and highly informative visualization of useful data.

IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization

Posted: 23 Jan 2007 11:25 AM CST

By Tim O'Reilly

IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. Martin Wattenberg, who developed the original version ...   more »