Reading up on data-visualization

Simon Willison introduces a new plugin hosting sandboxed HTML+JavaScript apps inside Datasette, enabling custom read/write SQL interfaces within tight iframe constraints.

Perspective is an interactive analytics and data visualization component for large and streaming datasets, built with WebAssembly, Python, and Rust.

OpenTrafficMap visualizes real-time traffic data using open-source tools and publicly available sensor feeds.

William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton pioneered handmade data visualization in the Machine Age, treating design as a form of thinking rather than decoration.

A treemap visualizes 342 US occupations representing 143M jobs, using BLS data and LLM-generated AI exposure scores, but the methodology draws skepticism.

Claude can now generate interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations inline during conversations, allowing real-time adjustments as discussion evolves.

A developer tracked 380,000 personal data points over three years but concluded the hundreds of hours invested were not worth the insights gained.

An interactive calculator lets users compare the energy consumption of everyday activities, including AI queries, to contextualize their relative scale.

mviz is a skill for Claude that generates static HTML charts and reports from compact JSON specs, optimized for fast, AI-driven ad hoc analysis with 17 chart types and a 16-column grid.

An interactive map visualizes global merchant fleet movements in 2012, revealing shipping lanes, oil flows, and seasonal patterns.

Dark Sky's iOS app was a data visualization masterpiece whose design and hyperlocal accuracy Apple failed to fully replicate after acquiring and sunsetting it.