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.
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14 mo on HNA Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
12 mo on HNHans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC
11 mo on HNDON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
8 mo on HNWealth Inequality in America
7 mo on HNAnimations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED
7 mo on HNImmigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
6 mo on HNHow not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
5 mo on HNThe best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
5 mo on HN4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization
5 mo on HNSimulating an epidemic
5 mo on HNStar Size Comparison 2
4 mo on HNAnimated Voting Methods
4 mo on HNOverpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained
4 mo on HNReligions and babies | Hans Rosling
4 mo on HNFlying Dream
4 mo on HNWhy the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG
4 mo on HNHans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
4 mo on HN15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
3 mo on HNREcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)
3 mo on HNBret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
3 mo on HNThe Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization
3 mo on HNThe Fallen of World War II
3 mo on HNI Solved Klotski
3 mo on HNWhy are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)
2 mo on HNBahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)
2 mo on HNSonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data
2 mo on HNHans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
2 mo on HNThe Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
2 mo on HNGall--Peters Projection
2 mo on HNA Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
2 mo on HNDrawing Conclusions: Is renting really a waste of money?
2 mo on HNviolin plots should not exist
2 mo on HNGoogle Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained
2 mo on HNSee how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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