Visualizing Facebook Friends: Eye-Candy in R by Paul Butler.
From the post:
Earlier this week I published a data visualization on the Facebook Engineering blog which, to my surprise, has received a lot of media covereage.
I’ve received a lot comments about the image, many asking for more details on how I created it. When I tell people I used R, the reaction I get is roughly what I would expect if I told them I made it with a Microsoft Paint and a bottle of Jägermeister. Some people even questioned whether it was actually done in R. The truth is, aside from the addition of the logo and date text, the image was produced entirely with about 150 lines of R code with no external dependencies. In the process I learned a few things about creating nice-looking graphs in R.
Great visualization example and encouragement to consider R for your next visualization project!