Visualization and processing are currently hot topics, and still more ideas, tools and techniques evolve to help process and visualize various data. Seldom has data been more abundant, and seldom has data had more power. By the latter I mean that data is strongly used in interpretation of buyer patterns and behavior, which lays the foundation of, or ads ridiculously amounts of value to, marketing strategies, which again when all comes down to it, pretty much rule the world.
Jasmine Novak and Aaron Koblin at Yahoo! have succeeded in making a cool way of visualizing search queries, including dimensions such as time and location. take a look at it here.
