Speedometer Design: Why It Works | DATA + DESIGN by Paul Van Slembrouck

Gauge controls may have some comfortable familiarity with certain business users (think oil & gas or automotive/transportation). 

However, do they convey business information in a quick, actionable way?
Speedometer Design: Why It Works | DATA + DESIGN by Paul Van Slembrouck

HTML5 visualizations

Some HTML 5 visualizations

A spinnable flare graph
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html

A tree map
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/treemap.html

A map of US
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/airports.html

LobsterPot provides an open-source version of MS Pivot Viewer
http://netflixpivot.cloudapp.net/

2011年の日本の地震 分布図 Japan earthquakes 2011 Visualization map (2012-01-01) - YouTube

It isn’t so much the visualization as it is the sound that will blow you away. From the constant frame of reference in the top left clock / calendar, to the scrolling detail data, this has all the elements of a perfect visualization.  It would be really cool to see twitter feeds and news headings on this too.