Data visualization & information design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (44)
Data visualization & information design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 44 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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12 mo on HNHans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC
8 mo on HNWealth Inequality in America
7 mo on HNImmigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
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
3 mo on HNI Solved Klotski
2 mo on HNThe Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
2 mo on HNDrawing Conclusions: Is renting really a waste of money?
2 mo on HNGoogle Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained
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Mentioned in HN threads about data visualization & information design, though never formally recommended:
The History of Europe: Every Year · The Tube Map nearly looked very different · Asteroid Discovery - 1970-2015 - 8K resolution · Gabbard Diagram for Low Earth Orbit 1959-2021 · The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling · Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998" · Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 · ✖️Coronavirus TIMELINE · China - 3,000 Years of History in a Minute