Innovation History via 6,000 Pages of Annual Reports
Nathan Yau from FlowingData reports on a visualization of all the GE annual reports from 1892 until 2011.
Selecting keywords lights up pages with those words.
Billed as tracing evolution of innovation but I am not sure I would go that far.
Interesting visualization but not every visualization, even an interesting one, is useful.
Fathom Information Design is responsible for a number of unusual visuallizations.