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48 nations × 16 stadiums × 3 hosts
JUN 1, 2026

The World Cup, in clay.

Every team, every stadium, every match of the 2026 World Cup, built in clay and data. Forty-eight nations as homes, sixteen cities, three host countries. Argentina come back as defending champions; four nations arrive for the very first time.

A Day in the Life of ChatGPT
First person × 24 hours × What it's actually like #066

A Day in the Life of ChatGPT

Not the diagrams. What it actually feels like to be the thing answering you. One full day inside ChatGPT, from the first 5am message to the 3am ones nobody talks about. You move it, one quiet beat at a time.

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World Cup 2026 in clay — a home for every nation, all 16 stadiums, every match. Argentina arrive as defending champions.
48 nations × 16 stadiums × 3 hosts #065

The World Cup, in clay.

Every team, every stadium, every match of the 2026 World Cup, built in clay and data. Forty-eight nations as homes, sixteen cities, three host countries, and the road to the final. Argentina come back as defending champions; four nations arrive for the very first time.

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Roland-Garros 2025, point by point — every men's match replayed shot by shot on the clay
50 matches × 11,258 points × shot by shot #064

Roland-Garros 2025, point by point.

The whole men’s draw, replayed shot by shot on the clay. Alcaraz’s two-sets-down comeback over Sinner in the longest final in tournament history, and 49 more. Reconstructed from hand-charted shot data: the scores, directions and depths are real.

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The boring truth about passive income — 41 income streams plotted by real pay vs real hours
41 streams × real pay × real hours #063

The Boring Truth About Passive Income.

Every "15 side hustles" list quotes the lucky 1% and hides the median. We plotted 41 ways to earn by what they really pay and how many hours they really cost. Almost nothing pays well and runs itself. An interactive matcher with one honest number: dollars per hour of your time.

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Slurp — a video museum of ramen, twelve regional bowls and one hundred and ten years
12 regions × 110 years × 123 billion bowls #062

Slurp.

A bowl. A sound. One hundred and twenty-three billion of them a year. Twelve regional styles, one hundred and ten years, and one Taiwanese-Japanese man’s refusal to lose a postwar bet. A video museum, with sound.

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The Bells of Tokyo — every platform plays a different seven-second song, soon to be deleted
478 stations × 170+ pieces × 2035 #061

The Bells of Tokyo.

Every Tokyo platform plays a different seven-second song. A composer named Minoru Mukaiya has been writing them since 2009. JR East is taking the Yamanote loop quiet by 2035. A listening museum, with audio.

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iPhone ads are a masterclass — six pitches across nineteen years
Six pitches × nineteen years × one phone #060

iPhone ads are a masterclass.

Shot like films, edited like poems, scored with music you can't shake. From "Hello" in 2007 to "Hello, Apple Intelligence" in 2024. A museum of how Apple sold one phone.

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The Royal Pop — Audemars Piguet x Swatch resale market, four years of Swatch luxury-collab data
8 watches × $400 retail × $1,697 day-1 #059

The Royal Pop.

Audemars Piguet and Swatch just dropped eight Bioceramic pocket watches at $400 retail. StockX cleared 572 sales by sundown, with the Lan Ba savonnette topping at $1,697. The third Swatch luxury collab in four years, charted against the MoonSwatch and Blancpain decay curves.

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The London Public Houses — 8,500 pubs photographed and mapped
8,500 pubs × photographed × mapped #058

The London Public Houses.

London's pubs, photographed and mapped. The ones still pouring, and the thousands that closed. From 1538 to last month.

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Every ChatGPT — Seven eras of the chatbot that changed everything
7 eras × 3 years × one bicycle #057

Every ChatGPT.

From the refusal era in 2022 to GPT-5 today. Seven flagship releases, the cost inversion behind them, the drama in the world while they shipped, and four bugs that didn't change.

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Every macOS — From Cheetah in 2001 to Tahoe today
22 names × 25 years × One Mac #056

Every macOS.

Nine big cats. Thirteen California places. From Cheetah in 2001 to Tahoe today. Every name Apple has chosen for the Mac OS.

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Power On — Iconic boot chimes from 1977 to today
39 chimes × 47 years × one room #055

Power On.

Brian Eno wrote one. Ryuichi Sakamoto wrote another. Jim Reekes snuck his into the Mac's ROM without permission. The half-second when 39 machines from Apple II to Vision Pro said hello first, with composers, lore, and the actual recordings.

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Sub Two — The first legal sub-2-hour marathon
A man × A shoe × 1:59:30 #054

Sub Two.

On April 26, a 30-year-old Kenyan shattered the two-hour marathon barrier in a 97-gram shoe. How Sabastian Sawe and a $500 Adidas did what nobody else had.

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I'm not a robot. (Every CAPTCHA, 1997-2026)
Real Widgets × 29 Years × The Receipt #053

I'm not a robot.

The companies asking already know. They're asking anyway. Six generations of human verification, every widget real where it can be embedded. Twenty-nine years of clicking traffic lights for an industry that has been training the AI that just made the test obsolete.

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How a Small Island Took Over the World
26% of Earth × ~450M people × 57 territories #052

How a Small Island Took Over the World

England had 4 million people. France had 20 million. Yet it was the smallest power that built the largest empire in history. The story of how they did it, what it cost, and what remains.

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A Visual History of Programming Languages
3,664 languages × 70 years × 6 playgrounds #051

A Visual History of Programming Languages

From Fortran to Mojo. Origin stories, Hello Worlds, a Logo turtle graphics playground, and the full family tree of who influenced who. Someone, somewhere, invented every single one of these.

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The Weasley Clock
Nine hands × Seven years × One stops #050

The Weasley Clock

Molly Weasley's kitchen clock had nine golden hands, one for each of her family. For seven years we watched them swing to Mortal Peril, Hospital, Lost, and back. Then on 2 May 1998 one of them stopped.

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Every Shot at The Masters 2026
19,593 Shots × 91 Players × 4 Rounds #049

Every Shot at The Masters

Rory McIlroy went back-to-back at Augusta National, beating Scottie Scheffler by one. Every drive, approach, and putt — 19,593 shots tracked by IBM, mapped on the course.

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The Listening Museum
36 Keyboards × Click to Hear × Anatomy #048

The Listening Museum

36 mechanical keyboards, sound-mapped. IBM Model M to HHKB to modern thocky customs. Click any card and type on your real keyboard to hear it, with per-keyboard anatomy and lore.

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Every Mac Ever Made
154 Macs × 43 Years × 217 Colors #047

154 Macs Since 1983

43 years. 154 Macs. From the $9,995 Lisa to the $599 MacBook Neo. Every iconic color, chip, and turning point in Macintosh history.

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Every Block Ever Added to Minecraft
1,092 Blocks × 17 Years × 25 Updates #046

Every Block Ever Added to Minecraft

From 26 blocks in Classic to 1,092 today. Scroll through every update, explore crafting trees, sort by color. 17 years of Minecraft, one block at a time.

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299 Google products we remember
Google × 299 Products × 2 Refocuses #045

299 Google Products We Remember

Google has shipped and retired 299 products since 2006. 49 of them ended in two specific years. A tribute to the people who built them.

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Every GPU That Mattered
49 GPUs × 30 Years × 1996-2025 #044

Every GPU That Mattered

49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. Compare any two GPUs, explore the evolution, toggle inflation-adjusted prices.

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Years Since Each Country Last Went to War
Geopolitics × History × Maps #043

Years Since Each Country Last Went to War

Only about a dozen countries on Earth have been at peace for fifty years or more. As of April 2026, the rest are recent or active.

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Big Bang Theory
Physics × Biology × Astronomy #042

The Big Bang Theory

105 real science moments hidden inside a sitcom. Every concept, every quote, every field of science.

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The Stain Index
Cleaning × 50 Stains × 8 Surfaces #041

The Stain Index

How to remove anything from anything. 50 stains, 8 surfaces, 400 step-by-step solutions with the science behind each one.

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Every iPhone Ever Made
Apple × 52 Models × 19 Years #040

Every iPhone Ever Made

19 years. 52 models. 2.3 billion sold. Every screen, camera, color, and price — the complete visual history of the iPhone.

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Every Airline, Alive and Dead
Aviation × 2,700 Airlines × 209 Countries #039

Every Airline, Alive and Dead

Over 2,700 airlines have existed since 1919. More than half are gone. The median airline lasts 11 years. This is every one of them, mapped.

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IPL 2026 Predictions
Cricket × Predictions × 50K Simulations #038

We Simulated IPL 2026 Fifty Thousand Times

Player ratings, match predictions, and team analysis backed by 7,775 T20 matches. Calibrated against bet365.

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Pickleball, Explained
Sport × Culture × 20M Players #037

Pickleball, Explained

20M+ players. 70,000+ courts. 60 years in the making. The court, the rules, the gear, the players, the boom. Everything you need to know.

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The Colors of Wes Anderson
Film × Color × 30 Years #036

The Colors of Wes Anderson

The Anatomy of a Scam
Fraud × Finance × Justice #035

The Anatomy of a Scam

43 major frauds. Hundreds of billions lost. Same 7 steps. Every time. The playbook, the math, and the 5 people still on the run.

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84 Years of Patience
Investing × Berkshire × 84 Years #034

84 Years of Patience

Every major investment Warren Buffett made. From $114 at age 11 to a $1 trillion empire.

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One Second on Earth
Brands × Scale × Global #033

One Second on Earth

1,157,407 WhatsApp messages. 99,000 Google searches. 75 burgers. 7 iPhones. Same second.

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South Park by the Numbers
TV × Comedy × Data #032

South Park by the Numbers

98 Kenny deaths. 5,558 swear words. 50 celebrity parodies. 28 seasons of chaos, visualized.

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The Rom-Com Formula
Film × Romance #031

The Rom-Com Formula

35 films. 4 acts. 1 formula. We timed every rom-com's meet, spark, break, and reunion.

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The Exponential Man
YouTube × Money #030

The Exponential Man

From 1 subscriber to 471 million. From $0 to $2.6 billion. MrBeast's entire story, in numbers.

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The 3-Point Takeover
NBA × Analytics #029

The 3-Point Takeover

4.5 million NBA shots mapped across 22 seasons. Watch mid-range disappear and the arc take over.

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The Strait of Hormuz
Geopolitics × Oil #028

The Strait of Hormuz

~20% of the world's oil flows through a 21-mile gap. 40 years of conflict, mapped.

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Beyond Earth
Space × Exploration #027

Beyond Earth

Every object humanity has sent past Earth's orbit. 1,137 objects across 65 years.

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1,025 Pokemon, Sorted
Gaming × Pokemon #026

1,025 Pokemon, Sorted

Every Pokemon ever created, sorted by type, power, size, and generation.

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A Thousand Dots, Breathing
Science × Breathing #025

A Thousand Dots, Breathing

You take 20,000 breaths a day. What if you did just 30 of them on purpose?

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Simpsons Predictions
TV × Pop Culture #024

Did The Simpsons Really Predict the Future?

We fact-checked 25 of the most famous predictions. 6 were eerily exact. 7 were completely fake.

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Oscars 2026
Oscars × Cinema #023

Oscars 2026: The Night in Gold

Every winner, every speech, every record from the 98th Academy Awards. Sinners broke history with 16 nominations.

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What Is Your Country Reading?
Books × Countries #022

What Is Your Country Reading?

What 96 countries read, how much they read, and the one book that defines each nation.

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Game of Thrones
TV × Deaths #021

Game of Thrones: By the Numbers

73 episodes. 6,887 deaths. 685 minutes of Tyrion. Whose show was it, really?

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A Day With Mochi
Cats × Daily Life #020

A Day With Mochi

I tracked every single thing my cat did for 1,440 minutes. Not one of them was productive.

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The Elo Lie
Chess × Ratings #019

The Elo Lie

2882. The highest chess rating ever recorded. But what does that number actually mean? 150 years of data, one uncomfortable truth.

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Every LEGO Color
LEGO × Colors #018

Every LEGO Color, Born and Died

228 solid colors across 77 years. A scrollytelling journey through every color ever made.

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UK Shopping Receipt
Inflation × UK Groceries #017

The UK Shopping Receipt

408 everyday items. 5 years of price changes. An interactive receipt wall built with ONS data.

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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift #016

12 Relationships. 96 Songs. One Wedding.

Every heartbreak, every era, every song — mapped from her first kiss to June 13th.

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Trump Iran
War × Presidential Comms #015

The War in His Words

Every Trump communication on the Iran conflict. 26 statements across 12 days, visualized.

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Disney Heartbreak
Disney × Pop Culture #014

How Long Until Disney Breaks Your Heart?

33 Disney films. 87 years. Every heartbreak mapped to the exact minute it happens.

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Epstein Flights
Crime × Aviation Data #013

Every Epstein Flight, Visualized

1,708 flights on Jeffrey Epstein's private aircraft. Every passenger, destination, and failure mapped.

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$100 Burger
Fine Dining × Fast Food #012

Why Your $100 Burger Costs $100

45 days of aging. 10,000 hours of training. And $0.70 to the cook who made it.

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Fortune 500 Women CEOs
Fortune 500 × Gender #011

Who Runs the Fortune 500?

500 CEO names on a wall. 445 in grey. 55 in red. The visual gap is the message.

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Friends
Friends #010

6 People. 1 Coffee Shop.

51,036 lines of dialogue across 236 episodes. Every conversation visualized in true dialogue order.

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Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad #009

The Descent of Walter White

62 episodes. 5 seasons. The transformation from Mr. Chips to Scarface in data.

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Operation Dhurandhar
Spy Thriller × Data #008

Operation Dhurandhar

The real events behind India's greatest spy thriller. Timeline, operatives, and the numbers that made history.

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Albert Park
F1 × Melbourne #007

30 Years of Albert Park

Every Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne's street circuit. 27 races, 14 winners, 30 years of drama.

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The Happiness Gap
Happiness × Time #006

The Happiness Gap

You spend the most time on what makes you least happy. 3M happiness measurements crossed with time-use data.

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Dog Breeds
AKC × Breed Data #005

Every Dog Breed's Personality

50 breeds, 8 personality traits, scored 1-5. Find your breed and compare.

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Chapter Three
Cricket × Rivalry #004

Chapter Three

29 matches. 17 years. The complete India vs England T20I rivalry heading into the World Cup.

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The Dumbledore Gambit
Harry Potter × Secrecy #003

The Dumbledore Gambit

Every secret Dumbledore withheld from Harry, mapped against when he actually needed the information.

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The Office
The Office × Characters #002

Who's Actually in the Room?

Every character interaction from The Office mapped across 9 seasons. 55,130 lines of dialogue visualized.

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Chart Chooser Guide
Chart Chooser Guide #001

How to Choose the Right Chart

24 chart types with live D3.js examples. Use when, avoid when, and the most common mistake for each.

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Thank You, Tim — A tribute to Tim Cook
A Tribute × 15 years × One Man Tribute

Thank You, Tim.

Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. From Robertsdale, Alabama to Apple Park, California. The keynotes, the quotes, the letter, and the lives his company touched.

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Pixar Cry Chart
Pixar × Tears Bonus

The Pixar Cry Chart

30 films. The exact minute each one breaks you, painted in every movie's real color palette.

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The Bitter Truth About Chocolate
5.2M tonnes × 57 countries × 1.56M children Bonus

The Bitter Truth About Chocolate

Your $3 bar. Their $0.78 day. The hidden cost of the chocolate supply chain, mapped and measured.

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The Border, in Numbers
249,741 to 6,100 × Every modern president Bonus

The Border, in Numbers

Illegal border crossings under every modern president. From 249,741 down to 6,100. The data tells the story.

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170 Years of Burberry
170 years × Every milestone × One wall Bonus

170 Years of Burberry

Every milestone. Every decade. From Thomas Burberry's 1856 shop to today's global luxury empire. An interactive visual timeline.

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