When Graphs Look Like Delicate Art

I know this seems a bit random, but I have a buried love for statistics that pops its head up for air every so often. My performance in math during high school was abysmal -- except for one freakish, exemplary term in Probability & Statistics. Go figure.

Anyway, I came across this blog post this morning. At first, I thought the image you see here was a photograph of rising incense smoke, perhaps inverted, mirrored, and color retouched. However, when I clicked through and read the blog, I realized this was a graph of population data. Click here and see the whole post for yourself. I find this intersection of raw data and graceful visuals fascinating.