Feast your eyes on a research visualization project, which explores where readers of The New York Times's Web site come from, and what kind of devices they use to read its content. The project,
developed in The Times's research and development labs produced, among other research, two videos showing the traffic to NYTimes.com on June 25, 2009, the day Michael Jackson died. The 24-hour period
is compressed into a little over a minute and a half. One video represents readers coming to the Web site from the United States, while the second video shows a map of global readers. Of particular
note, at about 1 minute 10 seconds into the video, at 5:20 p.m., a huge "pulse" of incoming readers can be seen, which represents a huge traffic bump thanks to TMZ.com breaking the news of Jackson's
death.
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