"Timeline charts are great for providing quick snapshots of historical events. .. Then it strike me, why not make a visual time line of Microsoft Excel ? So I did that instead."
""Graph TV," the latest project by data viz virtuoso Kevin Wu, lets you visualize IMDb's massive database of user ratings. Type in the name of a show and the site gamely spits out a graph of every episode, helpfully color coding seasons and drawing a linear regression line for each. No longer will your TV arguments be founded solely on vague recollections and long-held grudges. This is cold hard data."