When we released our report on the colors of the social web , based on data analyzed by our Twitter theme tool, we were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people's profile designs. Was Twitter's default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online?
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it forever: A great data visualization has the power to illuminate the world in ways that would otherwise be impossible. Today’s example comes from the inestimable Ben Fry and his firm, Fathom, who created a simple but astonishing chart of the performance of the Fortune 500 ever since 1955 .