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Visualisations
The puzzles are built on real numbers, and some of those numbers make good pictures on their own. These are the nicest ones, made with the same renderer as the games.
Every capture in chess, piece by pieceAll 32 pieces round a ring, joined by who takes whom, in 1.8 million captures.
The honeycomb TubeEvery station as one cell, coloured by weekend travel, passengers or quiet Fridays.
The family tree of programming languages59 languages from Fortran to Zig, and which are still alive on GitHub.
Story: Monopoly, priced for realLondon and Atlantic City against real home prices, back to an 1898 poverty map and the 1930 census.
Where do kings get checkmated?The mated king’s square in 1.6 million online checkmates, by the piece that gave mate.
What a kilogram of each element costsThe periodic table by price per kilo, from 8 cents to $660,000.
When do we break which bone?The median age of people who break each bone, from 11 to 77.
How Magnus Carlsen opens with WhiteHis first move as White, 2003 to 2026, as ribbons.
The honeycomb TubeEvery station as one cell, coloured by weekend travel, passengers or quiet Fridays.
The body explorerOrgans, bones, injuries and teeth: 39 charts of the human body, drawn live.
The family tree of programming languages59 languages from Fortran to Zig, and which are still alive on GitHub.
Story: Monopoly, priced for realLondon and Atlantic City against real home prices, back to an 1898 poverty map and the 1930 census.
When do we break which bone?The median age of people who break each bone, from 11 to 77.
What a kilogram of each element costsThe periodic table by price per kilo, from 8 cents to $660,000.
Where Magnus Carlsen moves, compared with everyone elseCarlsen's landing squares against strong online players'.
Where do kings get checkmated?The mated king’s square in 1.6 million online checkmates, by the piece that gave mate.
How Magnus Carlsen opens with WhiteHis first move as White, 2003 to 2026, as ribbons.
Magnus Carlsen’s king goes for walksWhere his king moves, against strong online players.
Where the pubs went: the change since 2010Pubs gained and lost in every area of England and Wales since 2010.
How expensive is each country? Prices with the US at 100What the same things cost around the world, with the US at 100.
Every capture in chess, piece by pieceAll 32 pieces round a ring, joined by who takes whom, in 1.8 million captures.
Who takes whom in chessEvery capture in 120,000 online games: which piece took which, and the sixteen pawns.