| The Observatory of Economic Complexity |
interactively explore economic/trade data for various countries |
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| Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) |
various US-related econometric and demographic data |
convenient data browser with graphs |
| The Opportunity Atlas |
zoomable US map showing detailed econometric and demographic data |
- US only
- interactive map
- neighborhood-level detail for big cities
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| World Population Density Interactive Map |
see (almost) exactly where people live around the world |
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| Gapminder Tools |
compare countries over hundreds of metrics and over the years: their sources are
the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, etc.
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- their data before the 1950s seem too speculative to be of real use
- the United Nations Statistics Division was created in 1947
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| Wikipedia’s List of International Rankings |
links to several country-ranking lists over various criteria |
social indicators, especially crime-related ones, often measure different things
in different countries
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| Commodity Markets |
data and research about global commodity markets |
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| Open Street Map |
explorable world map with tons of local info for most major cities |
in some ways even more useful/complete than Google Maps |
| Canadian Weather Radar |
Canadian-weather animations without ads/popups |
official source |
| ADS-B Exchange |
live-track up to thousands of aircraft from all around the world |
apparently much less censored than similar sites, like FlightRadar24 |
| Google Earth Engine Live Editor |
interactive JS editor to control large-scale geodata processing |
requires a Google account with special permission to access Earth Engine |
| Desmos Graphing Calculator |
graphing calculator similar to GeoGebra |
public permalinks don’t need an account |
| Wikidata Query Service |
interactive query editor/runner for Wikidata |
- Ctrl+Enter to run
- Ctrl+Space to autocomplete things
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| Neocities |
free website host without ads/trackers |
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| Excel-workbooks Viewer |
drop XLSX files on the page to view them |
Excel files in XLS format (without the final X) not supported |
| AWK Live Editor |
use awk for text-processing on the go |
- runs
mawk, which means smaller-sized buffers (e.g. sprintf is up to 8 KB) are used by default
- lets you save your work via public permalinks
- mawk Manual
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| sed Live Editor |
use sed for text-processing on the go |
lets you save your work via public permalinks |
| grep Live Editor |
use grep to match text patterns on the go |
lets you save your work via public permalinks |
| bc (Basic Calculator) |
use bc to calculate with arbitrary precision on the go |
- 20 decimal digits by default
- math library (option
-l) is included
- arrow keys to navigate/edit line
- Ctrl+Backspace to erase whole line
- bc Manual
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| DuckDuckGo !bang |
find shortcuts to enable context/site-specific searches on DuckDuckGo |
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| Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection |
dozens of puzzles playable from the site; also available as all-in-one apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS |
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| Puzzle Bobble - Bust-A-Move |
play Bust-A-Move, a real-time puzzle game from 1994 |
runs in-browser emulator |
| After Burner 2 |
play After Burner 2, an arcade-style jet-fighter game from 1987 |
runs in-browser emulator |
| Chess |
play chess against a world-class bot |
has a wide range of difficulty levels |
| 8 Ball Billiards Classic |
play pool/billiards |
ad-tracks you |