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In doing early technology research (comparing jQuery against YUI, Prototype, etc.), I came across some impressive projects that demonstrate how simple it can be to implement somewhat advanced functionality into web apps.  These are largely visualization and interface related in functionality.  Highlights include:

• Excanvas – canvas support for IE
• Flot - highly configurable charts in jquery with json support, etc.
• jQgrid – fast live interface with large datasets
• Tufte Graph – more pretty jQuery charts

Also useful are the jQuery plugins infintedrag.js, jeditable.js, curvycorners.js, etc. for quick nice visual and interface improvements.

Also, I did some database visualization my least year of college.  The project was Intergraphik, a filtering, navigation, and visualization tool in jQuery.  Screenshot below shows a dataset ripped from myStarbucksIdea.com (a SalesForce implementation with a nice 80,000 idea submissions.)