The visualization at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADSecondNewsCollection#project%3DWTKGOOGLE%26a

The visualization at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADSecondNewsCollection#project%3DWTKGOOGLE%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541... (linked from this article) is just terrible - it's at the very least a pointless way to display the time data, at worst deliberately misleading as to what the size of the green parts represent (a quick view of that animation would make a viewer think "ZOMG, they're using more and more of my search data as time goes on, aaaagh, and everything else is getting worse, too!"). I'm all for interactive data viz, but come on...nothing bugs me more than a flashy moving chart that obscures the data that it purports to present.