Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An interactive visualization of Switzerland's public transport network launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Visualising real-time Sydney bus congestion with Marey charts▲57

   As a side project I built Sydney Transit Graph - a visualisation of real-time Sydney bus congestion. Each line on the graph (a Marey chart) represents a bus completing its route (percentage) over time.

   2022 · jakecoppinger.com · its alternatives →

2. 2NT
   NYC Taxi Visualization▲6

   2016 · michaelfogleman.com · its alternatives →

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   What the Street▲61

   Visualize the distribution of mobility spaces in cities

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   tota11y▲102

   An accessibility visualization toolkit from Khan Academy

   2015 · khan.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Globestudio▲84

   Open-source dotted maps and 3D globes for designers

   25d ago · globestudio.app · its alternatives →

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   Subspotting▲65

   Visualizing available cell phone coverage on the NYC subway

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   PolicyViz: Chris Parmer from Plotly▲53

   The future of online data visualization tools

   2016 · policyviz.com · its alternatives →

8. 8VV
   Visualizing Visions – Exploring the Rijksmuseum Dataset▲6

   2017 · visualizingvisions.com · its alternatives →

9. 9VB
   Visualizing bikeshare in the United States▲5

   2021 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →

10. 10ND
    New data visualization tool and why we made it▲9

    2014 · blog.spritesapp.com · its alternatives →

11. 11BC
    Bosnian census visualization▲5

    2016 · census-ba.statick.org · its alternatives →

12. 12BB
    Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer▲9

    Feb 2026 · svylabs.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Modeling Berlin subway lines in graph database▲29

    Explore the Berlin subway system using Memgraph Lab, mapping subway stops as nodes and connections as edges in a graph database.

    2023 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Commute Map▲4

    Where people go to and from work visualized

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15NG
    Nations Graph – a visualization of world history in Haskell and JS▲7

    2015 · rocurley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Transitland▲11

    An open source mapping and routing tool

    2016 · transit.land · its alternatives →

17. 17AV
    A visualisation of pathfinding algorithms▲5

    2017 · corvuscrypto.com · its alternatives →

18. 18KA
    Knarr, a collaborative, visual data exploration tool▲6

    2020 · knarr.io · its alternatives →

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    Periodic Table of Visualization Methods▲2

    Visualization for communication, engineering and business

    2016 · visual-literacy.org · its alternatives →

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    Visualising Data▲7

    The essential collection of visualisation resources

    2017 · visualisingdata.com · its alternatives →

21. 21CL
    Charting live Uber data in multiple cities with React/Redux/d3▲5

    2015 · resistorsings.com · its alternatives →

22. 22GS
    gridvisual – search and visualize EU data (D3.js)▲9

    2014 · gridvisual.com · its alternatives →

23. 23EV
    Embeddable Visitor Maps▲7

    2013 · maps.chrismacnaughton.com · its alternatives →

24. 24VH
    visualize HN polls by building charts▲5

    2011 · hn-stuff.appspot.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →