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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0 mo on HNThe History of Europe: Every Year
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