Visualizing Data is Freaking Awesome!

NYTimes.com is aweome.  They've been coming up with dynamic and intuitive ways to visually present data.  Nobody wants to read the voting breakdown of the House of Representatives.  A list of names followed by a "yes" or "no" is not exactly engaging.

NYTimes.com took this list, allowed cross querying with other data and created a quick, painless and interesting way to see how the House voted on a particular bill.  You can get a breakdown by party, ideology, state and region.  Check it out, its exciting stuff:

Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/ROLLCALL.html?currentRoll=99

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/ROLLCALL.html?currentRoll=20

Play around with the "Show only certain districts" feature on the lower right.  Its so interesting!