Infographic of the Day: Google's "Data for a Changing World"

Google's new offering--and a slew of others--highlights a new trend that allows everyone to publish, graph, and share data. And Microsoft Excel is getting lapped.

Google's getting into the data visualization game: Yesterday, Google Labs unveiled the "Public Data Explorer," which allows you to see animated visualizations of some of the most searched-for data sets on the Web. (You can watch a fascinating animation of the chart above here.)

This is an add on to a search feature that Google...