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One of the sies I peruse on a reg­u­lar basis (ie sub­scribe to) is Flow­ing­Data. In its writer Nathan’s words

“Flow­ing­Data explores how design­ers, sta­tis­ti­cians, and com­puter sci­en­tists are using data to under­stand our­selves bet­ter — mainly through data visu­al­iza­tion. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and per­sonal infor­ma­tion you enter online are all forms of data. How can we under­stand these data flows? Data visu­al­iza­tion lets non-experts make sense of it all.”

If you’re inter­ested in graphic design and/or visual infor­mat­ics, go have a look at the site. I’ve resisted re-posting stuff from there, but when I saw this, I just had to. I under­stand the frustration.

(If you want some back­ground to this, go have a look at the orig­i­nal post on Flow­ing­Data.)

Great work. It would be nice to see a vari­a­tion on this in which font size and colour are used to reflect people’s level of annoyance/frustration. That would of course require some inter­pre­ta­tion and there’s no hard data to back it up, but I think most of us could guess the emo­tional state of some of the writers.