<img attachment="sorting_algorithms.png" align="left" class="frame">If you're faced with a pile of data that needs to be sorted, you can use the <a href="http://vision.bc.edu/~dmartin/teaching/sorting/anim-html/all.html" source="" author="David R. Martin">Animated Sorting Algorithms</a> to decide, based on what kind of data you think you're going to have. Click a little green refresh symbol in the rows to watch the algorithms race on the same dataset or click a column header to watch the same algorithm attack best- and worst-case scenarios simultaneously.