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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.

sports.withgoogle.com

Google Cloud x Team USA

An AI tool that transforms standard video into actionable data, helping athletes find their competitive edge for the Olympic Winter Games.

searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Searching for Birds

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations.

css-tricks.com

Trying to make the perfect pie chart in CSS

Can we make pie chart that’s semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library?

anacyclosis.info

Anacyclosis: the cycle of political revolution

An interactive visualization of Polybius’s theory of anacyclosis—the cyclical succession of political regimes.

evilcharts.com

Evil Charts

A library of beautiful charts components that are easy to use and customize, built with Tailwind CSS and React.

bikemap.nyc

bikemap.nyc

Visualization of the entire history of Citi Bike, the largest bike-sharing system in the US.

pudding.cool

How musicals use motifs to tell stories

Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables.

explorer.audubon.org

Bird migration explorer

A guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way. Nice dataviz ref.

flagstories.co

Flag stories

Stats about flags and flag design—a data visualization project.

pudding.cool

In pursuit of democracy

Analyzing every mention of ‘democracy’ in the American Congressional Record.

perspective-dev.github.io

Perspective dataviz

An interactive analytics and data visualization component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.