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Data Poems

Stories I like to tell with numbers. Interactive visualizations and datasets by Luke Steuber.

Data Poems

Stories I like to tell with numbers.

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I use data as creative material: trade becomes motion, temperature becomes a field of particles, and the solar system becomes a place to wander. The live collection is at datapoems.io.

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Orrery The solar system, stars, and constellations. Open the sky.
Flow Global trade through several visual forms.
Strangely Attractive A playground for mathematical strange attractors.
Cosmic Clock Time at scales beyond the wall clock.
Fuse Temperature anomalies drawn as particles.
Keep Up County-level rent burden.

Data to work with

Etymology Atlas connects word histories across languages. US Disasters brings together records from government sources. US Inequality collects county-level measures for comparison.

Read each dataset's provenance, license, and limitations before reusing it. A visualization is an interpretation of its source, and a striking pattern still needs a careful explanation.

How I approach it

I favor full-screen scenes, restrained controls, and typography that leaves room for the data. Interaction should reveal something: a relationship, an outlier, a different sense of scale. Beauty earns its place when it helps someone stay curious.

For a bug or an idea about a particular piece, use its repository's issue tracker.

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Luke Steuber · Data Poems · Ambient Time · Actually Useful AI · One Impossible Thing

Made by Luke Steuber. Questions or collaboration: luke@lukesteuber.com.

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  • orthography Public

    The Tree of Writing: explore 164 writing systems, their histories, specimens, and geographic origins.

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    TypeScript 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
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    Explore shared and variable formula elements across 91 mineral records, with filters, comparisons, locality maps, and credited specimen photos.

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    TypeScript 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • .github Public

    Data Poems — immersive visualizations treating data as creative material

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    0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
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    Filtered Steam co-review graph: 25,996 game nodes, 861,232 links, plus a separate 82,928-game catalog

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    Python 9 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
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    Interactive 3D chaos attractor visualization with real-world data

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    JavaScript 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
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    From Earth to the Oort Cloud. 41,000 stars, 88 constellations, real data, mostly live. Fake scales.

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    TypeScript 3 1 0 0 Updated Sep 5, 2026
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    279K image alt-text pairs from 489 Bluesky accounts — curated for quality, validated at 90%+ alt-text rate

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    Python 2 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 2, 2026
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    Anonymized Bluesky firehose dataset - December 2025

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    Flashlight-reveal visualization of ghost account data

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    HTML 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Aug 6, 2026
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    Real-time earth dashboard: earthquakes, ISS, aurora, satellites, tides

    data-poems/live-earth's past year of commit activity
    HTML 2 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Aug 6, 2026

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