Visualizing the Wind...

The snapshot I took of the wind map doesn't really do it justice – the real thing is animated and interactive (you can zoom in on any particular area).  The wind data being visualized is realtime, collected from NOAA via publicly available APIs.  The statement on the web page says it's a personal art project, and in fact it is often quite beautiful.  It's also a wonderful example of the power of data visualization: the animated map instantly conveys the current winds in a way we would never get by reading columns of locations, wind direction, and wind speed...