8 ms·
Atlas – a platform for charts and data
- d--b 11y agoCan someone who upvoted comment on what this is supposed to do? I searched `car sales in Europe` and the first chart I got is `new startups valued at 1bn or more`
- germanier 11y agoIt seems like these are the (manually created) charts used in qz.com articles.
- soneca 11y agoI searched 'hostels in the world' and got "sugary drinks can kill" and "Fanya's rare metal bubble: Indium prices since 2011".
- cpsempek 11y agoI searched "tsla" and "tsla price" (and again "aapl" and "aapl price"). The first gave me more or less what I was after, the second returned results about cocaine and mdma prices per gram. As others have mentioned, absolutely miserable search, truly a groping about in the dark. They might as well have clickable paths for you to follow based on categories and such. I would have had a lot more fun exploring their content in this way. Instead I'll probably never use this again.
- jbob2000 11y agoIs this a library? Or some kind of data service? How does this compare to http://www.highcharts.com/ http://www.highcharts.com/ ?
- pcurve 11y agoIt's a collection of statistics represented in chart format. It's not javascript charting framework like highcharts or d3. It's more about browsing and sharing statistics.
- delgaudm 11y agoWhat an odd front page. "Type to search", with no indication of what to search for. I typed in 4 searches, got "No results found" for all of them. Strange.
- lobo_tuerto 11y agoI typed "Mexico" and got a series of charts back. Seems like it's more like tag search.
- a3n 11y agoI typed "search". https://www.theatlas.com/search/search https://www.theatlas.com/search/search
- komali2 11y agoI typed "Virtual Reality" and got back "Media depictions of Latinos don't match reality" https://www.theatlas.com/charts/V1RJtzYA https://www.theatlas.com/charts/V1RJtzYA Can anybody ELI5 what this site's supposed to be doing?
- a3n 11y agoMaybe it's searching in a very small search space.
- lucideer 11y agoThe design is nice enough, but the UX is awful, and pretty much for only one reason: search. It seems to be a site listing charts, stats, data. Scrolling down or using the "Explore" nav item top-left works fine for browsing. Search seems to be a secondary feature that is a simple keyword search on site content (the kind of site search that's usually subtle and off to one side), as opposed to a deliberately designed and targeted search on specific content facets. For some odd reason some designer has thought this should be front and centre despite being not a very good way to find anything specific. Adding the following CSS rule would massively improve the site: .hero .search-container { display: none; } Otherwise, it seems nicely put together
- fareesh 11y agoTried to register but got a cryptic "Unable to register using that email address and username". Tried several combinations with no luck. I think it is in some sort of closed beta. Being able to quickly generate a good looking chart that intelligently picks ranges, min, max, etc. and share it with a public URL seems nifty. Are there other similar services that have a pain-free way of doing this sans google sheets?
- rfjedwards 11y agoThis is not a thing like Wolfram Alpha. It appears to be a searchable index of charts/data from Quartz (QZ.com) and partners (like sponsor GE). Note that T&C in registration goes to QZ.com (http://qz.com/about/terms-conditions/ http://qz.com/about/terms-conditions/) .
- CameronBanga 11y agoWhat are the terms on these? Is the idea that someone could use these as citation in a presentation or paper? And not sure given the page what I should be searching for? I only guessed businesses, because Quartz, but the search for Apple offered odd results.
- m52go 11y agoI wonder how lucrative the partnership with GE is / will be. As a user interested in the future of digital economic models, I would love it if this sort arrangement makes the service viable... The sponsorships is cleanly integrated and both entities' purposes seem to overlap (i.e., the ads are native...i.e., GE is showing charts like the rest of the site, not banner ads).
- Flenser 11y agoOther things called Atlas: HashiCorp's Enterprise Suite - https://www.hashicorp.com/#products https://www.hashicorp.com/#products Stripe's startup tools - https://stripe.com/atlas https://stripe.com/atlas Netflix's Telemetry Platform - http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/12/introducing-atlas-netflixs-primary.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/12/introducing-atlas-netfli... O’Reilly's learning environment - http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/ http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/ Boston Dynamics's Robot - http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_Atlas.html http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_Atlas.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY Did I miss any?
- imaginenore 11y agoAlso a book of maps.
- danvayn 11y agoAlmost forgot about that one.
- sw00 11y agoatlas.torproject.org
- SimplyUnknown 11y agoAutomatically tuned linear algebra software
- WA 11y agoFacebook's Ad thing: https://atlassolutions.com https://atlassolutions.com
- bloaf 11y agoAutomatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software - http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
- d--b 11y agoA very large person, long ago, tasked to carry the world or something
- anamoulous 11y agoFantastic, a searchable collection of graphs that take specialists from the media can misinterpret.
- hauget 11y agoNo tutorial for first time visitors is kind of a fail. When a search fails, there should be a message stating something like "why don't you try searching for X".
- dschnurr 11y agoOur team at Graphiq has been working on a similar tool for publishers and consumers to quickly find visualizations. One differentiator from Atlas is that many of our charts are dynamically generated on the fly based on the search query–for example, "usa vs india gdp", "population of the country with the tallest building", "obama vs clinton approval rating". You can try it out here: https://www.graphiq.com/search https://www.graphiq.com/search
- vijayr 11y agoI like it better than atlas. It is pretty fast too, considering the amount of data points you have.
- findjashua 11y agoyour search results are def more relevant than atlas - searching for `usa gdp` actually showed a chart on usa gdp!
- an4rchy 11y agoGraphiq has a much better search algorithm, or at least you've covered the primary use cases well. Although, I'm curious, what is Graphiq's business model?
- dschnurr 11y agoWe provide visualizations to journalists and publishers for free and then monetize readers on our site through display advertising. Additionally, we have offerings for developers and companies who want to utilize our knowledge graph in different ways.
- tomelders 11y agoI'm heartened to see a distinct lack of 'donut' charts, the scourge of the infographic world.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- devin 11y agoForgive me, but why has this story received so many upvotes? As others have mentioned, the front page provides no example of what to search for, and once I finally got a few results, they were less than interesting. Maybe I'm just not the target audience? Is there actually a need for this?
- SingAlong 11y agoIf you try to register and get this error about invalid username and password, then try disabling your ad blocker (it worked for me that way).
- liquidise 11y agoWhile this is nifty idea, the execution is a bit off. More troubling is the shocking misrepresentation of much of the data. Take the Diamond Cutters graph [1] where the Y-axis includes US, Namibia and "East Asia". Did "diamond cutters per capita per country" not show the the intended conclusion? This trend persists through many of the graphs i've clicked on. 1. https://www.theatlas.com/charts/EJJSh2f6e https://www.theatlas.com/charts/EJJSh2f6e
- ThatMightBePaul 11y agoWhy is this interesting, when the charts all lack clear data sources? Numbers without context are meaningless.
- findjashua 11y agosearching for `usa gdp` showed charts for everything other than usa gdp
- aristus 11y agoI searched for [oranges] and got a mix of fruit juice and prison inmate statistics. What kind of fuzzy matching is going on here?
- iampuero 11y agoMy bet is that it matched the show "Orange is the new Black", seems just like its searching by tags.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- misiti3780 11y agosorry if i dont understand here but is this basically gist for charts ?
- duck 11y agoThis isn't new either, was shared a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763980
- placeybordeaux 11y agoUS birth rate gives about 10 completely unrelated charts. https://www.theatlas.com/search/us%20birth%20rate https://www.theatlas.com/search/us%20birth%20rate
- abcampbell 11y agoGood idea, but search isn't great
- m104 11y agoDo you have support for logarithmic charts? Some of those top examples would benefit greatly from a logarithmic Y-axis.
- galistoca 11y agoNot really a "platform". It's just charts and graphs from QZ.