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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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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