Some people love to make lists.  It can be fun to rank and compare things, but today the 7th grade talked about information graphics: ways to represent data that take advantage of the human ability to compare visuals without having to think to hard about what they mean.

As an example, we took a look at a beautiful new visual representation of the top 100 websites, organized by popularity and category.  How many can you guess before visiting the BBC News site to check out the results?