Visualizing Data with a Roller Coaster

This is just plain cool.

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I suppose if you were looking at data over a long period, or a short period with frequent and potentially large changes, this would be a good way to get a nice mental image of the total picture, and of how it changes. Especially if you spent a lot of time looking at roller coasters that represent data.

But it's mostly just really neat.