connectedpapers.com
Enter one paper and get a visual graph of the prior and derivative work most closely related to it.
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Data & Research
Look things up like a professional: data, papers, and deep reference.
forebears.io
Look up how common your surname is and map where in the world it clusters.
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gapminder.org
Hans Rosling's interactive bubble charts of global health, income and population over two centuries.
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books.google.com
Chart how any phrase rose or fell across centuries of printed books.
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heyjackass.com
Unofficial statistical tracker of Chicago crime data, updated relentlessly.
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hollywoodagegap.com
Charts the age difference between actors playing love interests in films, and it is often bleak.
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homicide.igarape.org.br
Igarape Institute's global data map of homicide rates by country and city.
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whoisinspace.com
Live count of humans currently off the planet, with names and mission details.
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imcdb.org
The Internet Movie Cars Database — identifies every vehicle that appears in almost any film or TV show, shot by shot.
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importyeti.com
Searchable database of US customs import records that reveals which factories and overseas suppliers a company ships from.
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informationisbeautiful.net
David McCandless's gallery of meticulously designed data visualisations.
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archive.org
A free library of archived web pages, books, films, software and live music, plus the Wayback Machine for seeing any site's past.
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judyrecords.com
Free full-text search across 700+ million United States court cases.
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littlesis.org
Free database mapping who the powerful know — donors, boards and revolving doors.
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eyes.nasa.gov
Live view of which spacecraft NASA's antennas are talking to at this moment.
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openalex.org
Free, openly licensed index of 324 million scholarly works, their authors, funders and citations.
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ourworldindata.org
Free, open, well-sourced charts and writing on global development, health, energy, climate and inequality.
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map.purpleair.com
Real-time air-quality readings from a global mesh of citizen-owned sensors.
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quiverquant.com
Tracks stock trades disclosed by US senators and representatives, searchable by legislator and ticker.
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semanticscholar.org
A free AI-powered search engine for scientific papers with citation context and auto-generated summaries.
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pudding.cool
Visual essays that answer oddly specific questions with real data and beautiful interactive graphics.
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violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org
A searchable database of corporate misconduct — fines, lawsuits and settlements by parent company.
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worldbirthsanddeaths.com
Live simulated counter of every human birth and death happening right now.
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search.worldcat.org
Searches the catalogues of thousands of libraries worldwide at once.
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worldometers.info
Live-running world counters for population, food, energy and everything else.
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