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Data visualization & information design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (53)

Data visualization & information design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 53 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 164 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Data visualization: charts, maps, infographics, Edward Tufte, Hans Rosling, interactive visualization, D3, time-lapse data art, visual explanations of data.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt: “This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme.” — an HN commenter, 2018.

14 mo on HN

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt

Enthought
15 HN recommender · 2015–2026
12 mo on HN

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC

BBC
10 HN recommender · 2010–2023
11 mo on HN

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Gapminder Foundation
8 HN recommender · 2017–2021
8 mo on HN

Wealth Inequality in America

politizane
8 HN recommender · 2013–2025
7 mo on HN

Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED

TED
7 HN recommender · 2017–2025
7 mo on HN

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

NumbersUSA
7 HN recommender · 2013–2024
6 mo on HN

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

TED
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling

TED
5 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HN

4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization

Adrian Crenshaw
7 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HN

Simulating an epidemic

3Blue1Brown
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
5 mo on HN

Star Size Comparison 2

morn1415
5 HN recommender · 2016–2022
4 mo on HN

Animated Voting Methods

Unify The Vote
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HN

Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN

Religions and babies | Hans Rosling

TED
4 HN recommender · 2013–2024
4 mo on HN

Flying Dream

Gary Garrett
4 HN recommender · 2014–2020
4 mo on HN

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG

THINK Global School
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

TED
4 HN recommender · 2011–2017
4 mo on HN

15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes

Timo Bingmann
4 HN recommender · 2014–2023
4 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HN

REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

Sébastien Duquette
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

Colin McDonnell
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HN

The Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization

American Museum of Natural History
3 HN recommender · 2010–2020
3 mo on HN

The Fallen of World War II

Neil Halloran
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

I Solved Klotski

2swap
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

Why are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)

SaltLakeUsersGroup
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)

media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HN

Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data

Tantacrul
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

TED
2 HN recommender · 2013–2020
2 mo on HN

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

Deep Astronomy
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HN

Gall--Peters Projection

UsefulClips
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HN

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

aConcernedHuman
2 HN recommender · 2013–2025
2 mo on HN

Drawing Conclusions: Is renting really a waste of money?

The Globe and Mail
2 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HN

violin plots should not exist

Angela Collier
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained

Nat and Friends
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund

TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022