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anas-sabbar.ca

What your phone is made of

The mined materials in a mobile phone, and which countries produced each of them in 2025, from U.S. Geological Survey data.

realworth.io

Anatomy of a $100 bill

A 3D tour of the U.S. $100 bill, plus 15 design and security feature groups explained.

franktisellano.github.io

Datatype

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images—just type.

echo.logicaleap.com

Echo chamber: a healthy public square

How people end up in bubbles, and how easily a crowd can be split. A data visualization project.

diamond.jaydip.me

How diamonds are made

Journey of a very old rock. An interactive data visualization.

mechanical-pencil.com

Mechanical pencil

Illustrating the engineering around us.

flowingdata.com

Defense against dishonest charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

feel.ifsart.com

Emotion Explorer

Explore emotions on the valence-arousal space.

perthirtysix.com

How the heck does Shazam work?

Spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.

sheets.works

154 Macs since 1983

A visual biography.

grit.garden

Grit Garden

Each Wordle game becomes a bouquet of flowers and a story. The emotional arc of every game mapped onto prose.

reuters.com

How California fights fires from the skies

High-stakes data visualization saves lives. This breakdown shows how clear mapping helps people navigate chaos.

trainjazz.com

Every train, a note

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

informationisbeautiful.net

Visualizing Billions

Some gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions.

cuberule.com

The Cube Rule

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it’s clearly a taco.

aeris.edbn.me

Aeris

Track live flights in stunning 3D over the world’s busiest airspaces. Free and open source.

anythingconverter.com

Anything Counter

The hidden price of digital life in real time with real data.

pudding.cool

Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.

nottoday.diy

Technofascism Network Map

Mapping the alliance of billionaires, politicians, and tech giants driving global techno-fascism.

wtfhappened2012.com

WTF happened in 2012?

A collection of long-term charts showing societal, economic, and behavioral trends aligned around 2011–2014.