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Data Visualization

Some subjects become much easier to understand once you can explore them visually. These websites use interaction to reveal patterns, relationships, scale, and change in ways that would be harder to grasp from numbers alone.

  • BioCubes

    By Brice Ménard, Johns Hopkins University + 1 more

    Grow strange modular digital organisms from simple biological rules.

    Biocubes webpage with large “biocubes” title text, the subtitle “a visual story of the living and the built,” and colorful textured cubes surrounding a central Start button.

  • City Climates

    By Derek Taylor and The Pudding

    See how climate patterns may reshape cities in the decades ahead.

    World map of colored climate zones with the large title “Climate Zones” and the prompt “How will your city feel in the future?” displayed in the center.

  • Data Clocks

    By Russell Samora and The Pudding

    Discover how the time of day can be linked to multiple, seemingly unrelated, data sources.

    Dark webpage from The Pudding introducing “A clock where the time is…” with four creative time-based experiments and a short explanatory note by Russell Samora.

  • Earth Nullschool

    By Cameron Beccario and Nullschool Technologies Inc.

    Watch winds, currents, and atmospheric systems flow across a living Earth.

    Globe visualization centered on North America, with swirling blue, green, and red wind patterns over a black background.

  • Here Is Today

    By Luke Twyman and wvnl / Whitevinyl

    A quiet meditation on presence, time, and the smallness of a single day.

    Dark webpage with the large text “Here Is Today,” a white downward arrow pointing to a yellow square labeled with the current date, and an “Okay +” prompt below.

  • Histography

    Desktop only

    By Matan Stauber

    Explore human history as an immense drifting timeline of events.

    Dark Histography webpage with introductory text explaining its interactive Wikipedia history timeline and a “Got It” button over a field of timeline dots.

  • Historical Tech Tree

    By Étienne Fortier-Dubois

    Trace the branching evolution of technologies across human history.

    Timeline-style visualization showing connected cards for fire making, hafting, prepared-core tools, and glue across dates from roughly 500,000 to 200,000 BCE.

  • Human Terrain

    By Matt Daniels and The Pudding

    Compare cities around the world using rich data visualizations that represent population, density and scale.

    3D population map of Southern California showing green vertical population spikes around Los Angeles and San Diego.

  • Internet Map

    By Ruslan Enikeev

    Explore a snapshot of the web from 2011 as a vast galaxy of interconnected websites.

    The Internet Map webpage showing a dense field of colorful dots and circles representing websites, with a search box and zoom controls.

  • Light Year FM

    New

    By Brian Moore, Chris Baker + 2 more

    Explore an interactive journey through space where moving farther from Earth reveals progressively older radio…

    Earth floating against a star-filled background beside the bright Sun, with “In Earth Orbit, You Would Hear 2026” displayed below.

  • NUKEMAP

    By Alex Wellerstein

    Visualize the scale and consequences of nuclear detonations anywhere on Earth.

    NUKEMAP interface showing a map of North America with New York selected as the target and controls for choosing a nuclear weapon yield and detonation options.

  • OneZoom

    By OneZoom

    Wander through a living branching map of life on Earth.

    Evolutionary tree visualization of apes showing branches for humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, with species images and divergence times.

  • Parable of the Polygons

    By Nicky Case and Vi Hart

    Explore how seemingly harmless choices can create unexpected social impacts.

    Parable of the Polygons webpage showing yellow triangles and blue squares, with an introduction about how harmless choices can create a harmful world and an interactive drag-and-drop example below.

  • Record Highs Mapped

    By Matt Daniels and The Pudding

    See when cities across the United States last experienced record heat.

    Pale globe centered on Asia and Australia with the text “Days since a city had a record-high temperature” across the middle.

  • Running Reality

    By Garth Henning and The Running Reality Organization

    Explore world history through an interconnected map of events and ideas.

    Interactive historical map of Britain showing the Kingdom of East Anglia highlighted, a Viking invasion route, a timeline across the top, and an information panel on the left.

  • Scale of Wealth

    By mkorostoff

    Scroll through a stark visual comparison of the wealth gap that exists in the world today.

    Bright blue wealth comparison graphic titled “400 richest Americans ($3.2 trillion),” with a large pie chart showing 39.6% and text about funding paid maternity and paternity leave for 100 years.

  • Seeing Theory

    By Daniel Kunin

    Discover probability and statistics through interactive explanations you can explore yourself.

    Seeing Theory webpage with the title “Seeing Theory,” the subtitle “A visual introduction to probability and statistics,” a Start button, and colorful dots arranged around the edges.

  • Seismic Drum

    By Jessie Char

    Turn seismic movement into a strange interactive drum machine.

    Black-and-white map of the Americas and eastern Pacific with black circles marking recent earthquake locations, including clusters near Alaska, Central America, the Caribbean, and western South America.

  • 100,000 Stars

    By Chrome Experiments, Google + 1 more

    Drift through a three-dimensional map of nearby stars.

    Interactive star map showing the Sun surrounded by labeled nearby stars.

  • Top Billboard Over Time

    By Matt Daniels and The Pudding

    Take a nostalgic journey as you watch and listen to popular music that rose and fell across the charts.

    Interactive music-history visualization showing Billboard Top 5 hits from 1986, with album artwork and ranked songs including “Rock Me Amadeus,” “Kiss,” “Manic Monday,” and “What You Need.”

  • The True Size Of

    By Damon Maneice and James Talmage

    Drag countries across the globe and confront the distortions of map projections.

    Map of Africa with a translucent blue outline of the contiguous United States overlaid across the continent, illustrating how large the U.S. would appear when placed over western and central Africa.

  • US Electricity Sources

    By Carbon Brief and Rosamund Pearce

    Explore the energy sources used to generate electricity across the United States.

    Map of the United States at night covered with colorful circles representing different electricity-generation sources, beneath the title “Mapped: How the US generates electricity.”

  • Wikigraph

    By Toby Penner

    Wander through Wikipedia by following visual connections between ideas.

    Dark interactive network visualization for “World War II,” with colorful lines radiating from a central node and a sidebar listing related countries, events, and topics.

  • Windy

    By Ivo and Windyty, SE

    Watch weather systems drift and unfold across the planet in real time.

    Colorful weather visualization centered on North America, with swirling green, blue, yellow, and red atmospheric patterns showing large-scale wind systems.

  • Listen to Wikipedia

    New

    By Hatnote, Mahmoud Hashemi + 1 more

    Listen to Wikipedia turns real-time Wikipedia edits into changing sounds and graphics: edit size affects…

    Overlapping translucent gray and purple circles drift across a dark blue background, with small Wikipedia edit labels appearing beside some circles.

  • Tokyo Trains

    New

    By Greggman

    Tokyo Trains is an interactive visualization of Tokyo’s railway network with time playback, date selection…

    Detailed 3D view of a Tokyo railway station complex, with dense multilevel tracks, platforms, and passageways rendered in bright colored lines against a dark background.

  • Miller's Planet

    New

    By KJR Labs and Kip Thorne

    An interactive web experience inspired by Miller’s Planet from Interstellar, comparing Earth durations with…

    Dark-themed Miller’s Planet time dilation display comparing elapsed time on Earth with the much shorter equivalent on Miller’s Planet, based on the “1 hour equals 7 years” premise from Interstellar.