Explorable Explanations
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Explorable Explanations are interactive articles that lend elements from gamification and storytelling to explain complex issues and educate users in an interactive way. Take a deep dive into some engaging examples and learn about the techniques behind this novel way of publishing and explaining.
Maarten Lambrechts (@maartenzam) is a data visualisation consultant based in Belgium. He knows his way around web development and (data) journalism and has a scientific background: 3 ingredients of many explorable explanations. He created the @explorables Twitter account, and built Rock 'n Poll, an explorable explanation about political polling.
- Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten… and 9 other articles
- Average reading time: 9 minutes
- Topics covered: learning, coronavirus, interactive, mathematics, dataviz
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- From experts like Bret Victor, Nicky Case · 🐘 mas.to/@ncase, and more
- You want to learn something new and are looking for a good, compact introduction.
- You want to sharpen your skills on something you got into recently.
- You want to catch up on a topic that has been in the news lately.










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Deep Dives are carefully hand-curated series of time-tested articles and videos from around the web.
We’ll guide you through, one link per day, every morning in your inbox.
Deep Dives come in bites that are short enough to fit in your day...
...but add up to a satisfying learning experience.
The article that kicked of explorable explanations, by Bret Victor (@worrydream). It's very meta: It is in itself an explorable explanation too.