How do *you* dig through masses of data?

Many of you know the problem: you are looking through a bunch of experiments, trying to understand what is happening. Maybe you are working on a screening problem, maybe you are even organized and structured and are using a statistical approach. But often you are not, and it is just looking at data, looking at plots of X versus Y, X versus Z, A versus B, etc.

How do you find the “golden data point”? What tools do you use for this? My best take right now is Microsoft Excel, but also a tool like Umetrics’s MODDE helps a lot if you really control the data you want to compare.

I just realized that Google has published a new API for data visualization, which supposedly can be used together with GoogleDocs. Has anyone tried that? (and also very nice is Google’s image generator for charts).

And then I came across this: Gapminder world data, which is just amazing.

Is there any way I can get my data to be displayed like this, interactively an as flexible? Anyone know how? (some trackbacks)

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