Pulse of the Nation is an Information Visualization illustrating the U.S. mood throughout the day inferred from Twitter.

Example:

Link:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/

[via @on_the_media and @haydenth]

“The IT Dashboard is a website enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments.

The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide information on the effectiveness of government IT programs and to support decisions regarding the investment and management of resources. The Dashboard is now being used by the Administration and Congress to make budget and policy decisions.”

Link:
http://www.itdashboard.gov/

This article shows how to use AppleScript to automatically insert a Table of Contents into Omnigraffle Documents based on the canvas titles.

Link:
http://unitid.nl/2010/07/creating-a-table-of-contents-in-omnigraffle-with-applescript/