Running The Numbers

This is a terrific visual work that seeks to make statistics viscerally effective, and IMHO succeeds admirably. Here's an example (used w/out permission, so go to the site, OK?):

Toothpicks, 2007

60x99"



Depicts 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.