I was browsing through Beautiful Data, and stumbled upon this gem of a visualisation. This is the default plot R provides when supplied with a table of data. A beautiful use of small multiples. Each box is a scatterplot of a pair of variables. The diagonal is used to label the rows. It shows for every pair of variables their correlation and spread – at a glance. Whenever I get any new piece of data, this is going to be the very first thing I do: ...
A fair number of the CSS frameworks I’ve seen – Blueprint, Tripoli, YUI, SenCSS – are monolithic. What I’d like is to be able to mix and match specific components of these. For example, 960.gs has a simple grid system that I’d love to combine with the vertical rhythm that SenCSS offers. (Vertical rhythm ensures that sentences align vertically.) I’d love to have a CSS framework that just sets the fonts, for example, and touches nothing else. Or something that defines the colour schemes, and lets you change the theme like Microsoft Office does. ...