Data Visualization is a hot topic right now, and understandably so. It seems that a diverse amount of data is being collected for every aspect of human life, and RIA technology is being used to create new ways of interpreting and using that data.One interesting Data Visualization project using Silverlight is the Descry Project which contains several open source visualizations which are available on Codeplex.

Along these lines, I had an idea to make a standard bar graph a bit more interesting by using physics to have a kind of "Bucket Graph" where symbols drop into "buckets." This adds absolutely no value to the interpretation of the data, but I thought is would make a cool visual effect. So here is what I came up with:

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