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Triggered a great lost memory: When I was on a dev team testing the graphing systems for a scientific data presentation software back in the early 90s I would try to come up with "fictional data sets" that would make interesting graphs. I tried to make them pretty, or weird, or just break the systems. Occasionally, it was so interesting I'd end up looking at the data / formulae that lead to the graph / design. Great creative space to be in for jumping back and forth between math and art.

Sounds fun! Would be a post worth reading if you remember any details or could sketch some out.

I'll dig through the notebooks and see if there are any left. I printed them out when they got interesting. I can already see this turning into an all-day session of reviewing the decades of odd projects that I've forgotten about. Maybe that's the project for next week. Like some people list all the concerts they've been to, I'll attempt all the projects I've done over the years. The hacker's equivalent.

I absolutley adore these. Are there any communities you're involved with sharing some of these?

The ability to tell a story within data is so critical

The language family constellation is especially beautiful. I’m surprised the author didn’t make a tree of life as well. That would work here too.

Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.

Thank you for sharing. These are incredible visualizations. I hope to revisit this site and find more.