Interesting sites, services, and visual stories worth your time - good layout, unusual ideas, smart ways to present information.
Pointer Pointer
An interactive site that finds a photo of someone pointing at your cursor. Simple idea, flawless execution - every mouse move, a new photo aligned to the pointer.
The Average Dane
Danish statistics told through one person: Nielsen, 42, drives a Volkswagen, holidays in Spain. A clean example of telling data through a story instead of charts.
Birthday Weather
Weather on the day you were born, where you were born. One idea, one pleasant interface.
This is a teenager
A visual story about how childhood trauma shapes adult life. The Pudding follows hundreds of teenagers studied over 25 years. Narrative data visualisation where story matters more than the graphs.
SpaceDJ
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A web experiment from DeepMind: fly a plane between stars of musical styles. A model generates music in real time, blending genres as you pass nearby stars. Runs in the browser.
Calculating Empires
An interactive map of key human achievements over 500 years, by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. Inventions and discoveries in communications, algorithms, control, and classification - explore a timeline in three dimensions.
Razmerus
Art Lebedev Studio tool for comparing scale - populations, years, molecules, diameters, areas, distances between cities and planets. From Earth to an atom, Moscow to New York, in one frame. Enter your own numbers and share.
Afisha Mira
Concerts and performances by Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking artists worldwide. Search by artist and city. Cultural events for diaspora audiences outside their home countries.
Finds are added as I come across them. If you know something good, email me.