Historical Tech Tree

Capitalism Tech Stack Map — A Cross-Civilization Infographic (D3 Force)

A People’s History of Tech

A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.

Invention & Discovery Cards

A Civilization-inspired tech tree but for the real life history of science and discovery. Inventions and discoveries presented in illustrated Magic-style cards.

On power, aesthetics, materiality and change in data visualization

Notes from the Information+ Conference at MIT/Northeastern University, Boston.

Invention Cards 3.0: Stories

Last month, after a long hiatus, I showed invention.cards to a friend in SF and came away unsatisfied. Indeed, the work was not yet done . Three things drove this revision: It felt incomplete. The experience was built around T-shaped navigation, focusing on a specific card and showing only their ancestors and descendants. It was hard to see where you were in time, hard to feel the shape of history, and ultimately was far removed from the way a tech tree should feel . The connections matter more than the nodes. What's most interesting to me was not

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data

Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checklist that can help researchers to improve their data visualization, by focusing on clarity, accessibility and design best practices.

GitHub Star History

View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.

On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges

We present an overview of the last ten years of research on visualizations that support close and distant reading of textual data in the digital humanities. We look at various works published within both the visualization and digital humanities

15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.

The Markup

Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society

18 Years of Internet Explorer Design History - 54 Images - Version Museum

A comprehensive visual history of Microsoft Internet Explorer from 1995 to 2013. See a gallery of the Microsoft Internet Explorer evolution from the beginning to 2013.

Mosaic

Scalable, interactive data visualization

An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer

Visual Cinnamon | Data Visualization Design & Data Art | Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through data visualization and data art

Information is Beautiful

Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

41 Years of Microsoft Windows Design History - 88 Images - Version Museum

A comprehensive visual history of Microsoft Windows from 1985 to 2026. See a gallery of the Microsoft Windows evolution from the beginning to present day.