Great interview with Michael Friendly on how the history of data visualization became a research discipline. He walks through the discoveries, forgotten figures, and organizing ideas behind the Milestones Project, and shows how those ideas still shape how we design and read charts today.

Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.

Saloni Dattani walks through a practical checklist for making visualizations clearer, more honest, and easier to read, with tons of real redesigns and trade-offs you’ll recognize immediately.

This is a thoughtful teardown of a bad temperature chart, followed by nine well-justified redesigns with full ggplot examples.

Line charts, anomaly bands, distributions, and heatmaps show how encoding choices shape interpretation in practice.

An interactive visualization opens up new ways of exploring and sheds a new light onto the evolution of Leonardo Da Vinci’s thoughts

An interactive visualization opens up new ways of exploring and sheds a new light onto the evolution of Leonardo Da Vinci’s thoughts

soarXiv is a visual exploration of the arXiv, a repository of scientific papers. It is a tool for exploring the arXiv in a new way, and for finding new papers to read.

The Parable of the Polygons is an explorable, interactive post that uses a simulation of slightly biased shapes (triangles and squares) to demonstrate how small individual preferences can lead to large-scale, unintended social segregation, based on the work of Thomas Schelling.

Reactive Data Board. Rabbit is a hyper-composable data platform that feels more like a creative game engine than a basic “dashboard” utility. Built on Clojure and SQL—but open to everyone—Rabbit gives you a direct-manipulation canvas where drag-and-drop meets livecoding, so you can shape, filter, pivot, visualize, and automate data exactly how you want.

This Distill publication provides an explorable explanation and interactive visualization to clearly illustrate the concepts and mechanisms underlying Bayesian Neural Networks.

The Stations Map by Albert Guillaumes is an interactive online visualization that displays the geographical locations of various metro stations, across different European cities.

This is an interactive, browser-based editor that allows users to create, customize, and configure complex data-driven choropleth and other map visualizations using the amCharts JavaScript library.