Effective data visualization operating on source code
windsurfer: Almost all large software shops have some sort of cheesy "dashboard" for upper management. Some of these analyze source code for line numbers, progress filling in templates, test results, etc.http://ohloh.net/ analyzes source code of open source projects and reports on them, such as commenting ratio (it warns you about projects that are 15% or less comments depending on language). This solves the problem of people wanting to know the health of certain projects.