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315 bookmarks by garrettc
"Hey, I’m Andy! Tag along with me as I hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest hiking-only trail in the world. From counting bug bites to watching the stars, I’ll relay my experiences, in real time, to my avatar so you can join me in the challenges, trials, and joys of wilderness backpacking."
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"The Design Squiggle is a simple illustration of the design process. The journey of researching, uncovering insights, generating creative concepts, iteration of prototypes and eventually concluding in one single designed solution. It is intended to convey the feeling of the journey. Beginning on the left with mess and uncertainty and ending on the right in a single point of focus: the design."
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How to create a color palette for the data visualizations in your organization.
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100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of our stellar neighbourhood.
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"Infrastructure is all around us. Some we can see, like roads, and some we can't, like radio waves. Big Glass Microphone looks at the intersection between these two kinds of infrastructure by visualizing the vibrations in a five kilometer long fiber optic cable buried a meter or two underneath the campus of Stanford University. "
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“On 24 July 2018, Intopia launched WCAG 2.1 Map, a visual rendering of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1.”
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Add movement to a bar chart, and you’ve got yourself a captive audience.
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This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world.
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"This site is a front-end to thousands of datatasets. It allows you to 'see' the data as it should be seen: through colours and shapes. With over 12 million data points spanning 100 categories, find a dataset that interests you and explore it using a suite of interactive maps and charts."
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Bartosz Ciechanowski creates incredible interactive long form pieces about technology, he's just released his latest about how GPS works
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"This curated collection is part of a broader research endeavor in which data, sonification and design converge to explore the potential of sound in complementing other modes of representation and broadening the publics of data. With visualization still being one of the prominent forms of data transformation, we believe that sound can both enrich the experience of data and build new publics. "
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"Mini Tokyo 3D is a real-time 3D map of public transportation in Tokyo. Trains in operation and airplanes that are arriving or departing are represented on a realistic 3D map with smooth animation. This is a “digital twin” that looks exactly like the real world in the digital world."
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"Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from coastlines around the world. Since then, an interactive version of that has been a back-burner idea. Well, finally, here we go."
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Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.
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"Workbench is a platform that helps you make sense of data tables. Code like a pro -- without code."
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"From Data to Viz provides a decision tree based on input data format. This tree leads to twenty formats representing the most common dataset types. For each, an example of analysis based on real-life data is provided using the R programming language."
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"Mathigon is part interactive textbook and part virtual personal tutor. Using cutting-edge technology and an innovative new curriculum, we want to make learning mathematics more active, personalised and fun."
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"Dash apps give a point-&-click interface to models written in Python, R, and Julia - vastly expanding the notion of what's possible in a traditional "dashboard." With Dash apps, data scientists and engineers put complex Python analytics in the hands of business decision makers and operators."
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"The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine may be cryptic. Over the course of this article I’d like to explain the functionality of all the basic engine parts shown in the demonstration below."
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"natto is a tool for fidgeting with JavaScript. Write and manipulate JavaScript expressions on a spatial canvas."
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A visualization of satellites, debris, and other objects tracked by LeoLabs in low earth orbit
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Explore the scale of the universe on this interactive page. Go from astronaut all the way to the observable universe!
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"Submit a URL to generate a node map of all of the requests on the page. Rapidly identify what third-parties are on your site, where your transmitted bytes are coming from and how slow your domains are!"
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“We present a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in "phase space" - plotting the growth rate against the cumulative cases, rather than either of these against time.“
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"Over the course of the past few years, while I was getting to the work and back home, I traveled through every single street in central London."
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“A poster (available in English, Japanese, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese) and web site to assist designers and journalists to select the optimal symbology for data visualisations, by the Financial Times Visual Journalism Team.”
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"A chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour: from simple wheels to multi-layered pyramids, from scientific systems to those based on the hues of human emotion."
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The city has changed drastically over the past 40 years, yet the M.T.A. map designed in 1979 has largely endured.
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A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system. This data visualization was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi.
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"A new way to discover products. Each chart gives you an easy to grasp overview of what is available on the market, and provides the tools to find the product that is perfect for you. Choose a category and try it out"
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See how the Earth is slowly build up from each of the 600,000 satellite images taken by Planet's satellites in a single day
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"You've probably heard of the Orion constellation, but what about the Wounded Ibex? This map shows the constellations imagined by more than 30 different cultures from around the world."
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With the 50th anniversary of the first crewed landing on the Moon fast approaching, I thought I'd share one of my favorite views
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