Berlin-based artists Marius Watz was commissioned by the Knight Capital Group to visualize the organization's "intraday buy and sell order data." This rainbow-esque piece was the result. Source

Ever wonder what 63,000 Bible cross references would look like visualized? Now you know, thanks to Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild. Source

Aaron Kolbin finds beauty in US air traffic patterns. In his head, they apparently look like black blobs of paint splattered in a Rorschach Test-like display. Source

Look closely; Juan Osborne created this portrait of Darwin by blending the most-used words in "On the Origin of Species." If you like what you see, he'll transform your words into art, too -- for a price. Source

Artist Nathalie Miebach takes data sets and turns them into 3D art. "Alto" is a visual representation of Omaha, Nebraska's wind direction and speed over a two week period. Source

Notabilia.net is an interesting site. It's basically a visual display of the thread lengths of discussions on Wikipedia centered around killing off an article. Source

No, that's not lava -- it's a visual representation of taxis moving throughout the streets of London, as tracked by GPS. Source

Alex Dragulescu's "Spam Architecture" series consists of 3D images created by the patterns, keywords and rhythms found in spam emails. Who knew spam could be interesting? Source

Mario Klingemann's "Pie packed" version of Alexej von Jawlensky's "Alexander Sakharoff". According to Klingemann, "The pie charts show the distribution of the dominant colors under the circle area." Source

Data as guerrilla art! Golan Levin created this customizable, reusable pie chart with re-arrangeable letters “suitable for the rapid deployment of pie-chart infographics.” Source

Radiohead's "House of Cards" music video was created with Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR technology -- not a single camera was used. Source

More Marius Watz? If you insist. This explosion of color is yet another look at Knight Capital Group's "intraday buy and sell order data." Source

The Metadata for Architectural Content in Europe's data visualization isn't just for show -- it's actually the interface for an architectural vocabulary search. Source

When the first images of Mars started coming back from the Mariner 4 space probe in 1965, it would take hours for the computer to compile the real image. Impatient engineers read the raw data as it came in and colored it in with the appropriate darkness. Source

More 3D art models from Nathalie Miebach. "Barometric Pressure: Herring Cove, Cape Cod." visualizes barometric pressure, cloud cover, soil temperature readings and bird sightings over a month on Herring Cove Beach, Cape Cod. Source

Aaron Kolbin takes a look at air flight patterns again, only this time with blue lines instead of ink blots. Source

Juan Osbourne (the guy behind the Darwin art) created this tree with the most-used lyrics in Bruce Springsteen songs. "The size of the words are proportional to the number of times the word appears." Based on this page.

Legendary Neoformix guru Jeff Clark created this Twitter StreamGraph from tweets mentioning "Coffee." It's too complicated to explain here, so check out the link for details. Source

Matthias Dittrich's "Narrative 2.0" program converts complex songs by breaking them into single channels and graphing them by timing and frequency. Cool stuff. Source

In this image of London, Eric Fischer displays exactly who's taking pics of the landmarks by tapping into the geotagging data of images uploaded to Flickr. Red means tourists; blue means local. Source

We promised a bonus, so here it is: a classic xkcd sketch that helps keep all this data visualization business in proper perspective. Source