Hi everyone!

I saw recently a gamification of a warehouse dashboard, and I decided to build one to explore how my local governments operate and just how complex they are.

I live in Wake County in North Carolina (Raleigh, NC), and our school system is huge! Part of our funding comes from the state, and it was quite eye opening to see the breakdown of income vs spending for the county when it comes to schools.

You can fly around the town and visit the different buildings (this is an actual cartoonified map of the county), and see how much resourcing goes into each department.

I've had positive feedback, would love any ideas of how to make it more interactive and intuitive. My 14 year old and 11 year old both learned a ton by navigating through it. I've done it for other towns in the Raleigh area as well.

https://www.towntoonify.com

Each star/planet represents a piece of media (games, literature, tv series, films, etc.)
There are different 3d scenes for different ratings.

10/10 is a solar system. The highest-ranked work is the sun; the others orbit farther away as their rank decreases.
9/10 is a set of constellations, with a separate constellation for each media type.
8/10 is a spiral galaxy. Higher-ranked works sit closer to the center.

The colors from the stars / planets are derived from the corresponding media's cover.

It's a screen rec of a free ultimate media tracker im building, it's on Github

Source: No external data: the graph is computed exhaustively. Each state is five digits (a, b, c, d, e), each 0–9, so there are 100,000 states. The rule shifts every value one place left and computes a new last value, a⁴ − (a³ >> 6), kept to one digit (mod 10). Here >> is a bit shift, so a³ >> 6 means a³ divided by 64, rounded down. Every state has exactly one successor, and with finitely many states every starting point must eventually repeat, so each state ends up in a cycle.

Tools: A small open-source web app I wrote (React, Vite, Canvas). It enumerates all states, finds every cycle, and draws each cycle as a ring with the states that lead into it as trees around it. The layout is crossing-free.

How to read it:

• Each connected shape is one cycle plus everything that drains into it.
• Colour is the length of the cycle (legend at the bottom).
• Brightness fades with distance from the cycle.
• For this map there are 340 cycles in total, the longest of length 10.

You can type your own formula and explore: https://exxliang193.github.io/FunctionalGraphExplorer/ Code: https://github.com/ExxLiang193/FunctionalGraphExplorer

I started this after noticing a long time ago that adding the last two digits of a number string and appending the sum always ends up repeating.

Found this site that tracks when AI messes up. The graphs are interesting.

Sorry if requests arent allowed, and im not sure exactly where you would pull the info from but im really curious to see social media and reddit posting/commenting trends around divisive political and hot button topics over the last 48 hours since theyve been bombing bot farms. Anyone feel like taking on a project?

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2026-Q2.pdf

I was interested in the music artists I liked, and wanted to create a much more comprehensive way to view the connections artists may have with each other. It's just a fun project, let me know what you think and if it’s accurate!

Data comes from Youtube Music public playlists for connections and Deezer for artist info (since spotify/apple doesnt share anything)