118 stories tagged data-visualization, newest first.
77 points by cdrnsf | 59 comments
Brown University news article about student Cunyan Ma's interactive map linking tech companies and data labeling firms to low-wage AI data workers worldwide.
127 points by endorphine | 49 comments
An interactive map and dataset of all 1,709 named land and sea battles fought by the Romans from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, with opponents, results and records.
157 points by vfxGer | 47 comments
Interactive bubble chart of S&P 500 companies sized by market cap, filled with stick figures representing employee counts, grouped by sector.
204 points by Group_B | 71 comments
An interactive dashboard charting published CVE counts over time from the CVEProject cvelistV5 data, with monthly and yearly projections.
461 points by hubraumhugo | 373 comments
Kadoa's US Energy Price Monitor page comparing residential electricity prices at investor-owned, public, and co-op utilities using EIA data, 2015–2025.
3 points by oddorbitapp | 0 comments
Odd Orbit is a free web app showing a live 3D globe with layers for earthquakes, weather, aircraft, satellites, plus UFO, cryptid and folklore reports.
355 points by xnx | 91 comments
An interactive Pudding visual essay using a network graph of film co-stars to explore the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game and which actors are truly most central.
95 points by akkartik | 26 comments
Color Names is an open, MIT-licensed collection of 31,970 community-authored color names, browsable in a 3D RGB/OKLab viewer and available via npm and API.
189 points by jsomau | 111 comments
An interactive fan-made Legend of Zelda timeline showing Hyrule's history and release order, with a countdown to the Ocarina of Time remake.
6 points by bushwart | 10 comments
A Visual Capitalist infographic article showing the countries of origin of Germany's roughly 17 million immigrants.
50 points by gumby | 22 comments
Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.
18 points by ldite | 2 comments
Wikipedia article on the shit flow diagram (excreta flow diagram), a tool for visualizing how human waste is managed in urban sanitation systems.
386 points by karakoram | 634 comments
An Our World in Data insight by Hannah Ritchie showing UK electricity generation per person has fallen by a third since its 2003 peak, below 1970s levels.
3 points by khaled_ismaeel | 0 comments
An interactive data visualization site, bl00d.money, that maps the companies and money flows it describes as profiting from genocide.
306 points by edent | 63 comments
An interactive analysis by Wonyoung So of OpenStreetMap data for North Korea, examining who its contributors are and how and why they mapped the country.
34 points by yegortk | 36 comments
A web app recreating the CIA World Factbook with country data from World Bank, WHO, IMF and others, offering search, metrics, scatter plots, and CSV export.
376 points by stared | 187 comments
A Quesma blog post by Piotr Migdał describing how Claude Opus 5.5 built an interactive visualization of Calvino's Invisible Cities from a single prompt over six hours.
107 points by simjue | 40 comments
A data-visualization story from sheets.works counting how few maintainers look after the code that billions of phones depend on, measured from the code itself.
129 points by jasontr | 57 comments
An interactive art history museum built from Wikipedia data, showing artists and art movements on a zoomable timeline gallery wall and a star map view.
4 points by laybak | 1 comments
An interactive Food Atlas page on knowledgeartist.org mapping connections between dishes, which showed only a loading message when captured.
9 points by javierluraschi | 2 comments
AwesomeDataviz is a community-curated directory of 291 data visualization tools ranked daily using GitHub, npm, PyPI and CRAN data.
66 points by s4074433 | 30 comments
An interactive scrolling guide explaining Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio by stripping elements from a cluttered chart one piece at a time.
178 points by karakoram | 76 comments
An interactive 3D globe from mapped.earth showing 75,919 charted lighthouses and navigation lights worldwide, each flashing on its real light cycle.
452 points by marjancek | 332 comments
An interactive scrollytelling essay by Tom Wojcik tracing how a closed strait affects fuel prices, harvests, bond markets and Poland's winter heating as of September 2026.
35 points by blondie9x | 31 comments
A site with an embeddable widget showing Earth's accumulated heat since 1998, expressed as roughly four Hiroshima atomic bombs' worth of heat per second.
16 points by teleforce | 4 comments
Visual Capitalist infographic ranking the world's 30 largest companies by profit margin, shown as profit per $100 in revenue.
15 points by polytap | 2 comments
Bluegraph is a web app for exploring NOAA National Data Buoy Center observations on a 3D globe, with station search, wave spectra, storms, and notable readings.
156 points by nicocarsui | 32 comments
An interactive world map overlaying about 38,000 player-drawn borders and coastlines from the Borderline geography games, on 184 countries.
5 points by godseyeuap | 0 comments
An interactive 3D globe web app mapping documented UFO/UAP sighting cases with a year histogram filter and linked evidence files.
45 points by transitivebs | 39 comments
Doom or Bloom is an interactive site where users answer questions to plot their AI worldview on a doom-to-bloom chart alongside notable public figures.
8 points by 91awebsi | 5 comments
Interactive data visualization mapping US roads whose names match over 1,000 themes derived by cross-referencing Wikidata articles with OpenStreetMap roads.
68 points by andrearitossa | 22 comments
HN Atlas, a site that groups Hacker News stories into browsable topics with post counts and trends over time since 2024.
127 points by terryds | 80 comments
Interactive chart plotting LLMs on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against blended API price, highlighting the value frontier with filters.
101 points by armenarmen | 39 comments
An interactive map plotting 1,596 US hot springs over a geothermal heat flow map, showing springs cluster where subsurface heat reaches the surface fastest.
7 points by momentmaker | 1 comments
An interactive data visualization of a Kichijoji school's daily record since 1963 of whether Mt. Fuji was visible from Tokyo, alongside Kofu's first-snow records.
22 points by hubraumhugo | 6 comments
An open-source dashboard tracking daily USDA food commodity prices at shipping points, wholesale markets, and supermarket ads, with historical charts.
323 points by rustywasm | 171 comments
Parcelscope interactive visualization showing every building in Los Angeles colored by decade built, animating the city's growth from 1880 to today.
608 points by thinkingemote | 284 comments
Interactive site that draws a random human life from the roughly 100 billion people who have ever lived, picking a year, place, and life from real data.
606 points by Labo333 | 294 comments
An interactive analysis of daily-scraped GitHub pull requests that clusters vocabulary and tracks the rise of Claude-style wording from coding agents.
1114 points by theanonymousone | 164 comments
Blog post applying Pareto front multi-objective optimization to choosing Mario Kart character and kart combinations to beat friends.
386 points by secretslol | 479 comments
A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query graphing Stack Overflow activity over time, but the capture shows only a Cloudflare bot verification page.
327 points by chenglong-hn | 118 comments
Project homepage for Flint, a Microsoft Research visualization intermediate language that lets AI agents generate charts rendered via Vega-Lite, ECharts, or Chart.js.
395 points by xbryanx | 106 comments
A Pudding visual story exploring about 5,000 historic restaurant menus from the New York Public Library's Buttolph Collection, dated 1880-1920.
651 points by ytkimirti | 144 comments
Hacker Trends, a tool that charts how often topics, tools, or people appear across 18 years of Hacker News posts and comments, with matching stories listed below.
362 points by xnx | 593 comments
New York Times interactive feature on how taller hoods on large trucks and SUVs have contributed to rising pedestrian deaths in the US.
1146 points by speleo | 230 comments
An interactive 3D stellar navigation chart built from Gaia DR3 data, showing nearby stars and the Earth-to-Tau Ceti trajectory from Project Hail Mary.
643 points by dougdude3339 | 98 comments
Doug MacDowell's project essay about spending 50 hours designing and drawing a single line graph data visualization.
402 points by robin_reala | 147 comments
Map of Metal is an interactive site that charts the history and subgenres of heavy metal music, shown here on its splash screen with a link to buy prints.
687 points by cianmm | 149 comments
A web page visualizing GitHub service outages over the past year as a contribution-style calendar of red squares, totaling 35.1 days of downtime.
438 points by thomasp85 | 81 comments
Posit Open Source blog post announcing the alpha release of ggsql, a grammar-of-graphics visualization language built on SQL.
371 points by joshuawolk | 70 comments
Interactive web page mapping live New York City subway trains, with each train line assigned a musical instrument to sonify real-time train movements.
394 points by anonfunction | 158 comments
A single-page tracker showing whether the Strait of Hormuz is open, with daily ship transit counts from IMF PortWatch and a map of vessel positions.
744 points by gpi | 352 comments
Blog post by Tey Bannerman mapping roughly 75 Microsoft products and features named 'Copilot' in an interactive visualization grouped by category.
348 points by rwmj | 228 comments
Live dashboard of Great Britain's National Grid showing electricity demand, generation mix, price, and emissions, here showing over 90% renewables.
425 points by andygcook | 318 comments
Interactive treemap visualizing 342 BLS occupations covering 143M US jobs, colored by outlook, pay, education, or LLM-scored AI exposure.
374 points by vismit2000 | 31 comments
R2D3's interactive scrolling essay introducing machine learning concepts by building a decision tree to classify homes in New York versus San Francisco.
425 points by lukakopajtic | 204 comments
Felix Krause's personal site explaining why he has tracked over 100 types of life metrics daily since 2019 in a single database, with visualizations of the results.
515 points by mschnell | 78 comments
An interactive visual explainer from MLU-Explain by Jared Wilber and Lucía Santamaría introducing decision trees for supervised machine learning.
774 points by zdw | 401 comments
A Pudding scrollytelling data story examining inconsistent women's clothing sizing, following a typical tween as she grows into adult sizes.
642 points by huntergemmer | 199 comments
GitHub repository for ChartGPU, an open-source MIT-licensed WebGPU-based charting library for rendering millions of data points in the browser.
416 points by skadamat | 168 comments
A Nightingale article eulogizing the Dark Sky weather app, shut down by Apple, and analyzing its data visualization design compared to Apple Weather.
736 points by surprisetalk | 112 comments
Interactive animated map visualizing global commercial shipping movements during 2012, with cargo types and CO2 emissions, by Kiln and UCL Energy Institute.
1397 points by maartin0 | 827 comments
A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query graphing the total monthly number of Stack Overflow questions over time; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
596 points by alphabetatango | 375 comments
Our World in Data article comparing the leading causes of death in the US with how often the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News cover them.
886 points by nashashmi | 823 comments
CNN visual explainer on how Israeli actions, including aid restrictions, led to famine in Gaza.
681 points by tcumulus | 137 comments
An interactive gallery by Albert Guillaumes of isometric 3D models of European metro stations and transfers, selectable by city and station on a map.
975 points by MaxLeiter | 355 comments
An interactive visual essay by Alvin Chang on The Pudding about what happens during 30-minute conversations between strangers.
520 points by Kortaggio | 101 comments
A search tool that lets users find text appearing on New York City streets, extracted via OCR from street-view imagery.
801 points by datadrivenangel | 173 comments
A satirical dictionary-style page defining "vibechart" as charting what you want to see, illustrated with misleading bar charts from OpenAI's GPT-5 release.
486 points by louisfd94 | 107 comments
An interactive visualization by Étienne Fortier-Dubois mapping technological history from 3 million years ago to today, with about 1948 technologies and their connections.
841 points by friggeri | 427 comments
A personal dashboard visualizing a ten-year daily running streak since July 2015, with stats on days, miles, hours, and elevation built from Strava GPX data.
1457 points by jamesharding | 192 comments
Personal page of a British Airways A350 first officer presenting interactive graphs and 3D globes visualizing his logbook of flights.
854 points by sdoering | 248 comments
An interactive horizontally scrolling scale model of the solar system where the Moon is one pixel wide, by Josh Worth.
463 points by LourensT | 107 comments
An interactive live map showing London Underground trains in real time, with zoomable 3D buildings and hover details.
1514 points by tomtomistaken | 225 comments
Homepage of Apache ECharts, an open source JavaScript data visualization and charting library, announcing version 5.6.
570 points by mxschll | 157 comments
A visualization of 2024 roll-call votes in the German Bundestag displayed as a GitHub-style contribution heatmap calendar.
448 points by rossant | 169 comments
Medium article introducing fastplotlib, a GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library for scientific data visualization.
564 points by yamrzou | 62 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing the winners of its $10,000 bounty for visualizing the ISBN space and which books it has archived.
421 points by nightcraft | 136 comments
Landing page for Scripton, a macOS Python IDE with built-in realtime interactive visualizations, an integrated REPL, and a custom debugger.
458 points by phiresky | 85 comments
Blog post describing a visualization of over 100 million books mapped by ISBN, made in response to an Anna's Archive challenge.
370 points by RyanShook | 125 comments
Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.
325 points by gotmedium | 550 comments
A web dashboard comparing NYC commute times on routes like the Holland Tunnel before and after congestion pricing began on January 5, 2025.
430 points by gaws | 52 comments
City Roads is a web tool by anvaka that renders every road within a chosen city using OpenStreetMap data, starting from a city name search box.
651 points by vortex_ape | 100 comments
GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.
398 points by feross | 216 comments
An interactive visual essay from The Pudding by Alvin Chang titled "sitters and standers," with an option to watch a video version.
479 points by consumer451 | 123 comments
A 3D web visualization that streams live Bluesky posts as text flying through a tunnel, styled after a Windows XP screensaver.
410 points by gaws | 85 comments
A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.
470 points by gaws | 153 comments
An interactive data analysis by Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt of title drops across 73,921 movies from the last 80 years.
452 points by orliesaurus | 183 comments
An interactive globe visualization showing network latencies between AWS data center regions, using data scraped from CloudPing.
569 points by Tomte | 156 comments
A Pudding visual essay by Russell Samora exploring the tabletop game Crokinole, starting with video of two top players scoring perfect rounds.