Another example on how to visualize data...

Being a Boston Red Sox fan and always looking for new and intersting ways to visualize data, I found this tool on Boston.com very interesting. It tracks Manny Ramirez's 496 career home runs and provides different ways to visualize what could be some pretty boring data if presented in a typical grid (see the HR information grid at the bottom). As a baseball fan, it is interesting to see the distances and ball parks where he has hit his homeruns. As a opposing manager, the Pitch count graphic would certainly be a tool to use when facing Manny. Certainly this only scratches the surface on the different ways that baseball measures performance (see Bill James and sabremetrics).