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24 alternatives to 丝绸之路 · 交互知识图谱
Interactive knowledge graph of the ancient Silk Road
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.
2011 · burntbrunch.github.com · its alternatives →
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Globe of History▲189I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into history — not a database, but a way to instantly sense density and continuity over time. Stack / Process Python for scraping structured event data from Wikipedia/Wikidata Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-based enrichment and multi-stage verification Mapbox GL JS + React (Vite)…
Nov 2025 · globeofhistory.com · its alternatives →
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Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.
2019 · chessroots.com · its alternatives →
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Kaiser Kuo & everything about China from cultural to digital
2015 · analysepodcast.com · its alternatives →
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OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →
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An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia.
15d ago · artmuseum.artfrompixels.com · its alternatives →
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Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.
2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →
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A data visualization about the growth of the web since 1990
2015 · evolutionofweb.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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Understand the footprint of Tableau in Asia
2015 · analysepodcast.com · its alternatives →
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Web Rewind▲98An interactive journey through 30 years of the web
Mar 2026 · web-rewind.com · its alternatives →
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The history of San Francisco's China Town
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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The Baidu Group in China
2016 · blcw.me · its alternatives →
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Each moving arrow represents one real bike ride out of 291 million, and if you've ever taken a Citi Bike before, you are included in this massive visualization! You can search for your ride using Cmd + K and your Citi Bike receipt, which should give you the time of your ride and start/end station. Everything is open source: https://github.com/freemanjiang/bikemap Some technical details: - No backend! Processed data is stored in parquet files on a Cloudflare CDN, and queried directly by DuckDB WASM - deck.gl w/ Mapbox for GPU-accelerated rendering of thousands of…
Jan 2026 · bikemap.nyc · its alternatives →
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MapScroll▲109Hi HN, I built this after getting frustrated trying to map out things like “Ancient mayan ruins” or “James Bond movie locations” on Google "My" Maps. You basically have to drop pins manually, hunt down photos, copy links, it’s slow and never feels like an actual story. With MapScroll, you just type something like “Marco Polo’s route” or “forgotten WWII sites in France”, and it geocodes, grabs images + articles, and plots everything into a shareable story map. Each marker comes with a little gallery and sources tied to your prompt. You can also refine the first draft which AI creates before…
2025 · mapscroll.ai · its alternatives →
- 20TA
2022 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →
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Beautiful graphics of imports and exports by country
2016 · atlas.hks.harvard.edu · its alternatives →
- 22LT
2015 · linkurio.us · its alternatives →
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Wikigraph▲14Hi! This is a visualization I've always wanted but never quite found. It's a navigable map of the Wikipedia link graph structure, with search and shortest-path finding. Offline, I parsed the May 2026 English Wikipedia full-text dump into a directed graph, used cuGraph on a GPU to run PageRank, Leiden clustering, and ForceAtlas2 for the layout. I did some post processing to get rid of lingering overlapping nodes and rendered a tiled map of raster base images (using Skia) and JSON metadata. Tiles are bundled into PMTiles. The frontend is Deck.gl. Everything is hosted on Cloudflare. Search and…
Jun 2026 · tobypenner.com · its alternatives →
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Free & interactive language world map. Discover with how many people you can communicate, and share your coloured map and results!
2023 · languageworldmap.com · its alternatives →
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