Explorables and interactives

Between exploratory data analysis and games

2020-03-12 — 2025-07-14

Wherein a curated list of extremely interactive data visualisations is presented, links are collected, and concrete exemplars such as Moon and a playable COVID-19 simulation are cited.

academe
communicating
computers are awful
data sets
dataviz
faster pussycat
generative art
how do science
learning
making things
mind
number crunching
photon choreography
statistics
UI
workflow

Just a list of links to extremely interactive data visualisations. If I want to throw some generic graphs into a bucket and give them a stir, I’ll use data dashboards. If I want something magical and intricate

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1 Theory

2 Tools

People often imagine that patchers are explorable data-processing tools, and maybe they’re not wrong.