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Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?

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What are some websites that that you frequent which really nail the design and usability aspect of viewing lots of data via graphs/charts?

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https://ourworldindata.org/

I reach for it several times per week. Never struggle finding what I want, nor getting it into the shape I want it.

Thank you for sharing. Needed it.

I don't use it, but I know of it: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/pipe-hangers/id~1-1-4/

Definitely McMaster-Carr! Such a high information density, but perfectly legible.

It’s a wonderful resource but they neglect the pagetitle element which is set to “McMaster-Carr” on every page. Links opened in tabs/windows all get the same title and bookmark titles need to be manually edited to be useful.

Why do developers of otherwise great websites neglect page titles?

It's a great site when you need to buy this sort of thing. However, given how lauded it is for functional usability, I noticed I need to rage click the back button in order to get to the site I came from after clicking one of their links.

I usually right-click + private browse random links, it keeps my cookies/local storge cleaner, and solves this kind of hijacking as a side effect.

I find the behavior varies depending on whether your browser sends a Referer header. (Which is still a fail on their part.)

Digikey's filterable product search (what I yearn Amazon had): https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/memory/774

Open Data Network: http://www.opendatanetwork.com/

digikey.com product filter results page is incredible. Clear case of form following function.

Weatherspark for visualizing weather data over time. Great for planning the time of year to visit foreign lands.

https://weatherspark.com/y/47913/Average-Weather-in-Paris-Fr...

Been looking for such a website to show weather for the whole year like this. Thanks for sharing.

You didn’t say why, but I’m guessing for dataviz inspiration. Baseball specific, but check out a player stats page on fangraphs.com

Baseballsavant is another excellent example.

Both are targeted towards laypeople. In fact, most baseball fans are not data savvy (or even data friendly!) so these are targeted at an audience that needs things spoon fed and look for any reason to hate something.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/tony-gwynn/1005166/stats?p...

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/mookie-betts-60...

Love the information density of mlb!

The fun part about that mlb site is that all of the data used to generate those pages is freely available to download [1] and use for whatever non-commercial uses you can think of. If you come up with something interesting, you can submit and present at one of the many conferences that happen (example: [2]) and are attended by the data science folks at the various mlb teams, who love chatting with people about baseball stats.

The ecosystem is extremely open especially compared to other pro sports leagues like, say, the Premier League.

[1] https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search

[2] https://www.saberseminar.com

Yes looking for some inspiration! These are great examples, exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. thanks!

I really like what https://datagolf.com/ has done to visualize and explore professional golf statistics.

A few interesting pages to check out:

- Scottie Scheffler's (Current Top Golder in the World) Player's Profile: https://datagolf.com/player-profiles?dg_id=18417

- Approach Skill Analysis: https://datagolf.com/approach-skill

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ focuses in the information without using indecipherable visualizations or adding a bunch of chart junk.

https://aba.amarkota.com

I created this data dashboard with Observable Framework[1] and Rust-Script[2] so I can check-in daily to better understand the data collected during Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)[3] sessions.

[1] https://observablehq.com/framework/

[2] https://rust-script.org

[3] https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-...

Meta analysis on nutritional supplements

The Intel Intrinsics Guide is excellent at what it does:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

The National Weather Service (NWS) has weather reports in tabular format: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.7687&lon=-9...

The graphical tables are nice, too: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.7687&lon=-9...

Hundreds of examples of data, maps, etc on RAMADDA- https://ramadda.org/repository/alias/examples

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

It hasn't had a format change for at least as long as I've used it (since 2009). The gauges both reflect the industrial nature of the data as well as show the portion of the capacity being used.

The trend charts are great too, telling the story of the short, medium and long term generation sources.

This is neat. Bit of a retro look but all info in 1 spot is kinda cool

Although these days there's an alternate - and more modern looking - view of most of these stats:

https://grid.iamkate.com/

Similar website for those in the US:

https://www.gridstatus.io/home

Shows fuel mix, load, and price data for all of the ISOs. It's been really exciting to watch lately because you can see the huge uptick in solar and battery deployments in markets like CAISO and ERCOT.

Really liked the aesthethic! Thanks for sharing.

I've stopped playing these past few months but probably the one that I kept going back to was this website to check stats for Escape From Tarkov's ammunition: https://www.eft-ammo.com/

https://finviz.com/ is pretty fantastic.

Genecards: https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=OR52L1

Scroll down to see lots of different kinds of data about a particular selected gene, with a navigation menu sticking at the top.

I love FinViz

https://finviz.com/

Not a website per se, but https://datasette.io is very rich in features. Hopefully not off-topic, but related.

https://payload.de/data/

https://ultrasound.money

Crystallography Open Database:

http://www.crystallography.net/cod/result.php?year=2024

http://www.crystallography.net/cod/1570196.html

This site has tons of economic data https://tradingeconomics.com/ Expensive though

Edit: Just remembered this one, Ballmer's side project https://usafacts.org/

love tradingeconomics and use it almost daily. I particularly like the way data is organized by country and by "use case".

For economic (as opposed to business) data you're usually better off with FRED https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

Tradingeconomics is better for comparative work IMO.

https://plaintextsports.com/

Not a website, but the iOS default weather app is very well thought out. It makes me wonder why other weather apps don’t present it like that.

It’s a shame the actual forecast data aren’t the best (at least here in the UK), and I do also wish the graphs had confidence intervals on them.

FWIW this app used to be much more basic and worse before Apple bought a company (DarkSky) that was really good at making their own weather app and essentially incorporated DarkSky’s design into Weather. Which offers a little insight as to why their app is uniquely better - apparently building a great weather app is not as straightforward as one might think.

In terms of really great well-designed apps that aren’t Apple’s the Norwegian meteorological agency maintains a really nice one called yr.no. It’s totally free (paid for by Norwegian taxes) and available worldwide. I use it in Scandinavia all the time, but less so in the States because like in your case the accuracy is diminished the further away you get from Norway. I bet it works pretty well in the UK though given the UK’s proximity to Norway.

Gapminder. World well-being across countries is visualized in really nice ways over time. And also a shit-ton of other graphs.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/

Dotabuff was great. It shows stats for Dota 2 basically and hasn't changed much since I used it in like 2015.

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/329323390

FAOStat https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/

I can get the the data, and the definitions, quickly.

I frequently use city-data.com. It's not beautiful but it's very useful and easy to understand, especially compared to official Census data.

Rtings.com uses charts for its reviews, but most it is over my head.

Bunch of pages on city-data haven't been updated in a while. It is also not nice to look at. My guess is that they had the first mover advantage and never bothered to make the site better.

Statista has a ton of info but a lot of it is behind quite expensive paywall.

I wonder if there is a middle path here - something that costs less than Statista (maybe not as comprehensive as Statista, they are a $150M company after all) and better than city-data.

Check out https://transportation.report it has a lot of cool auto and transpo data that I didn’t even know existed.

I work on a tool for displaying Baserow tables (https://mabynogy.org/?n=463) in the front end.

ALIGULAC: StarCraft 2 Progaming Statistics and Predictions http://aligulac.com/

https://observablehq.com/explore

The venerable http://www.baseball-reference.com/

https://cash.coin.dance/blocks

https://www.wowhead.com/items

https://coinmarketcap.com/

I think Koyfin does a decent job there. Great information density and ability to drill down into things

any idea on their tech stack? Crunchbase just lists "HTML5, jQuery, and Google Analytics" which is not very helpful

When figuring out tech stacks I usually start with their careers page :) https://www.koyfin.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, RxJS, AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Nice thread and here was me thinking you meant something any Cisco router or switch product page

OT: But, someone please help - almost every one of the links on this page do not show for me when I am logged in - I have to logout to read the comments.

This is how it is for me on many many HN pages. I assume because link only replies are auto-set to below some threshold, as are anything with even one downvote.

How can I change that? I set "showdead" -> yes in my profile. What else can I set?

BoxOfficeMojo is one of the most cited sources for movie ticket sales info and has lots of interesting data and tables. They paywalled a bunch of cast data a few years back but the title data is still there. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/

Microsoft Dynamics 2016

vantage.sh ec2 instances page

I like this no-Nonsense view of real estate loans:

https://assetindexer.com/en/pages/pro-trader.html

Very Bloomberg terminal

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