Triggered a great lost memory: When I was on a dev team testing the graphing systems for a scientific data presentation software back in the early 90s I would try to come up with "fictional data sets" that would make interesting graphs. I tried to make them pretty, or weird, or just break the systems. Occasionally, it was so interesting I'd end up looking at the data / formulae that lead to the graph / design. Great creative space to be in for jumping back and forth between math and art.

The language family constellation is especially beautiful. I’m surprised the author didn’t make a tree of life as well. That would work here too.

Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.

Thank you for sharing. These are incredible visualizations. I hope to revisit this site and find more.