Visualize!

Here is a chart created by the New York Times staff showing box office receipts over time for every movie release in 2007. It is a neat chart showing how "bursty" blockbusters are and how Oscar contenders have a longer tail. Neat, but you have to work for that insight. Some kind of filitering or making the horizontal access not from the calendar date but on weeks of distribution, would have made the point clearer. People go gaga for this stuff, but the nice presentation obscures the insight that you want to confer.