What Are the Popular and Featured Projects on Engaging Data?

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Engaging Data is a personal gallery of interactive JavaScript tools, data visualizations, and maps. The site's own "Popular / Featured" section highlights the projects below, spanning maps, environment, energy, finance, politics/society, health, fun, and math/science. If you want a quick tour of what the site is best known for, start with these.

Featured projects by category

Project Category What it does
Income Tax Bracket Visualizer (marked NEW) Financial Visualizes income tax brackets
Early retirement calculator – When can I retire? Financial Projects when you can retire
Rich, Broke or Dead – Early retirement and longevity Financial Combines retirement outcomes with longevity
Global Birth Map Maps / Health Maps global births
California Reservoir Dashboard Environment Tracks California reservoir levels
California Reservoirs and Snowpack Environment Shows reservoirs alongside snowpack
Snake on a Globe Fun A snake game rendered on a globe
Univ. of California Admissions Rates by Campus and Major Politics/Society Compares UC admission rates by campus and major
County Electoral Map – Land Area vs Population Politics/Society Contrasts electoral geography by area and population
California Electricity Generation Energy Breaks down California electricity generation
How Rich is Elon Musk? shown in pixels Financial Represents wealth in pixel form
Country-Centered Maps Maps Re-centers world maps on chosen countries

How to use these

Most items are standalone web tools: open the page, adjust the inputs or hover/click the visualization, and the display updates. For example, the Income Tax Bracket Visualizer lets you see how brackets apply across income levels, while the Early Retirement Calculator takes your inputs and projects a retirement timeline. No account or download is described on the site; each project runs in the browser.

If you're an educator

The site explicitly invites educators who use these tools in a curriculum to share how they incorporate them, via comments, Twitter, or email. That makes the featured list a reasonable starting point for classroom demonstrations in math, geography, environment, and personal finance.

Beyond the featured list

The full gallery is organized into tabs — Maps, Environment, Energy, Financial, Politics/Society, Health, Fun, Math/Science, Other, and Dataviz — with additional projects such as the Global Birth Map, US COVID visualizations, the Antipodes map, Mercator country size distortion, and the Rubik's cube world records chart. On mobile, scroll the category tabs to the right to reach the later categories.