Topic
visualization
- Circle of Life
Kevin Kelly: Because of the circle, no organism is privileged with being above another. A circle has not top. We humans are somewhere in the lineup, but where depends on how you turn the chart. This circle of life alsā¦
- Charts On Design Christoph Labacher Interaction Designer
A collection of chart designs.
- rt.live
Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram, has been working on this site that gives up-to-date reads on Rt by state, giving a read on how fast the coronavirus is spreading. These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measureā¦
- Weekend Reading: Figma's Typography, Xerox Alto, and a Timeline of CoVID
āØļø I Pressed āB, You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next An entertaining talk about the complexity of typography, from Marcin Wichary at Figma's recent Config conference. š„ Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto An techā¦
- Weekend Reading: Universe Sandbox, Mapping Math, and Japanese Companies
š Universe Sandbox This is a physics simulator that replicates the physics of interstellar objects. You can simulate massive planetary collisions or supernovae in the Earth's solar system, in case you want to see whaā¦
- The Roads of Planned Cities
Mike Bostock published this cool Observable notebook that generates snapshots showing road networks of centrally-planned cities. Brasilia as an example: It uses a combo of D3 and OpenStreetMap data to generate vectorā¦
- Beautiful News
An interesting idea for looking at data. Rather than the typical negative, dour news you read daily, this site presents data demonstrating positive progress. Examples: US Cancer Survival Rates are Rising African Countā¦
- Weekend Reading: Blot, Hand-Drawn Visualizations, and Megafire Detection
š Blot.im Blot is a super-minimal open source blogging system based on plain text files in a folder. It supports markdown, Word docs, images, and HTML ā just drag the files into the folder and it generates web pages.ā¦
- How PG+E's Aging Equipment Puts California at Risk
This is a great narrative story from the Wall Street Journal about the current situation in California with PG&E, the rolling blackouts, and the wildfires ravaging the state. Drone video, maps, data on fire risk and iā¦
- All of the Worldās Borders by Age
In preparation for this yearās Geography 2050 theme (āborders in a borderless worldā), this map gives a helpful sense of how relatively young most of the worldās international boundaries are. Outside of Europe, most bā¦
- Weekend Reading: Observable Edition
This week's links are all interactive notebooks on Observable. Their Explore section always highlights interesting things people are creating. A great learning tool for playing with data and code to see how it works.ā¦
- Imaging the Earth, Every Day
Most people don't know how earth imaging satellites work. All they know is a camera is flying overhead snapping photos. This visualization gives you an animated picture of how Planet's satellite constellation can coveā¦
- Weekend Reading: Summer Solstice, Zoom Learnings, and TeachOSM
šŗ 5 Learnings from Zoom Zoom is one of those admirable SaaS companies built on solid product and amazing execution. I love this ā not relying on anything sexy or super inventive, just solving a known problem better tā¦