Kevin Simler uses interactive simulations to explain how things — ideas, disease, memes…
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Interactive explainer for how disease and ideas spread through a network
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Optimized bubble tea consumption
When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…
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Subway delays visually explained
Adam Pearce for The New York Times describes the sad state of affairs…
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Waiting For a Table
A simulation to estimate how long until you are seated at a restaurant.
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Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world
NASA. Data. Good.
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Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured
Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
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How disinformation spreads in a network
Disinformation is kind of a problem these days, yeah? Fatih Erikli uses a…
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Visual simulations to show Uber game strategies
Uber uses psychology and video game mechanics to encourage drivers to work longer…
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LOOPY is a tool to think in systems
Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…
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Simulation shows how your mouth works when you talk
You have a mouth with a bunch of tissue in it and manipulate…
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Here’s how a neural network works
Daniel Smilkov and Shan Carter at Google put together this interactive learner for…
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Simulation shows why polls don’t always match future results
With election season in full swing, as far as the news is concerned…
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Super Tuesday simulation to show uncertainty
As we know, there are various outcomes during election season, with uncertainty in…
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Possible paths for a Trump nomination loss or win
It pains me to imagine a time when Donald Drumpf earns a Republican…
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Try to win the lottery
The Powerball Lottery is big news in the United States right now. The…
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Simulate the world as an emoji system of rules
We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…
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A Day in the Life of Americans
I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
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Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here’s a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.
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Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty
Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
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Why buses bunch at single stops
Maybe you’ve waited at a bus stop for longer than usual, and your…
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