TED: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

Further follow up
- Check Blog: "Information is beatiful"
- Check about the Google interactive tool he has published.
- Book: "Information is Beautiful/The Visual Miscellaneum"
- Guardian Data Blog
-> Designing Visualization tool for Telephone bill

Thought:
He has been an programmer.
"Data is the new soil"
Information design is all about knowledge compression. (Can the process be replaced by computer?)

Question: Whether it is possible to scale the process of data visualization; like a template? Such as visual.ly http://create.visual.ly/