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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topics
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
Something different
How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
How the words we teach English language learners changed.
From The Pudding
Rock n' Poll
the statistics of polling, explained with interactive graphics
From Explorable Explanations
PCA Digit Embedding
Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
From Awesome Explorables
An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.
From Explorable Explanations
Explorable Explanations
the 2011 essay that coined the phrase 'Explorable Explanation'
From Explorable Explanations
How arbitrary is the Electoral College?
Redraw state boundaries with 2016 US election data.
From Awesome Explorables
Explorable Studio
In-browser, no-code tool for building and sharing explorable explanations with sliders, charts and math.
From Awesome Explorables
Visualizing Map Distortion
visualizing map distortion. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
From Awesome Explorables
Kernal Density Estimation
“a useful statistical tool with an intimidating name”
From Explorable Explanations
The New Science of Sentencing
play with algorithms that (try to) predict crime
From Explorable Explanations
Years You Have Left To Live, Probably
a morbid simulation using your info + CDC data
Something different
That's this stretch.
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