I created a new category for the blog… InfoPorn. It’s a name I got from Wired Magazine, but is a great way to refer to a longtime passion of mine: data visualization. Most of my development experience has been with applications that take high-volume data and aim to bring the interesting bits to the surface. Charts and graphs are great, but the visualization world has exploded lately with lots of online examples, Flash applications, entirely new visualization styles, and discussion groups all cropping up all over.

With the similar explosion in weblogs and RSS, it makes it very easy to find others who are interested in data visualization, as well as pointers to cool examples online. This category will be used to link to examples, mention ideas I’m tossing around, and so on.