Bunch of pages on city-data haven't been updated in a while. It is also not nice to look at. My guess is that they had the first mover advantage and never bothered to make the site better.
Statista has a ton of info but a lot of it is behind quite expensive paywall.
I wonder if there is a middle path here - something that costs less than Statista (maybe not as comprehensive as Statista, they are a $150M company after all) and better than city-data.
It hasn't had a format change for at least as long as I've used it (since 2009). The gauges both reflect the industrial nature of the data as well as show the portion of the capacity being used.
The trend charts are great too, telling the story of the short, medium and long term generation sources.
Shows fuel mix, load, and price data for all of the ISOs. It's been really exciting to watch lately because you can see the huge uptick in solar and battery deployments in markets like CAISO and ERCOT.
You didn’t say why, but I’m guessing for dataviz inspiration. Baseball specific, but check out a player stats page on fangraphs.com
Baseballsavant is another excellent example.
Both are targeted towards laypeople. In fact, most baseball fans are not data savvy (or even data friendly!) so these are targeted at an audience that needs things spoon fed and look for any reason to hate something.
The fun part about that mlb site is that all of the data used to generate those pages is freely available to download [1] and use for whatever non-commercial uses you can think of. If you come up with something interesting, you can submit and present at one of the many conferences that happen (example: [2]) and are attended by the data science folks at the various mlb teams, who love chatting with people about baseball stats.
The ecosystem is extremely open especially compared to other pro sports leagues like, say, the Premier League.
It’s a wonderful resource but they neglect the pagetitle element which is set to “McMaster-Carr” on every page. Links opened in tabs/windows all get the same title and bookmark titles need to be manually edited to be useful.
Why do developers of otherwise great websites neglect page titles?
It's a great site when you need to buy this sort of thing. However, given how lauded it is for functional usability, I noticed I need to rage click the back button in order to get to the site I came from after clicking one of their links.
BoxOfficeMojo is one of the most cited sources for movie ticket sales info and has lots of interesting data and tables. They paywalled a bunch of cast data a few years back but the title data is still there. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 127 ms ] threadRtings.com uses charts for its reviews, but most it is over my head.
Statista has a ton of info but a lot of it is behind quite expensive paywall.
I wonder if there is a middle path here - something that costs less than Statista (maybe not as comprehensive as Statista, they are a $150M company after all) and better than city-data.
Edit: Just remembered this one, Ballmer's side project https://usafacts.org/
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It hasn't had a format change for at least as long as I've used it (since 2009). The gauges both reflect the industrial nature of the data as well as show the portion of the capacity being used.
The trend charts are great too, telling the story of the short, medium and long term generation sources.
https://grid.iamkate.com/
https://www.gridstatus.io/home
Shows fuel mix, load, and price data for all of the ISOs. It's been really exciting to watch lately because you can see the huge uptick in solar and battery deployments in markets like CAISO and ERCOT.
I reach for it several times per week. Never struggle finding what I want, nor getting it into the shape I want it.
Baseballsavant is another excellent example.
Both are targeted towards laypeople. In fact, most baseball fans are not data savvy (or even data friendly!) so these are targeted at an audience that needs things spoon fed and look for any reason to hate something.
https://www.fangraphs.com/players/tony-gwynn/1005166/stats?p...
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/mookie-betts-60...
The ecosystem is extremely open especially compared to other pro sports leagues like, say, the Premier League.
[1] https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search
[2] https://www.saberseminar.com
Why do developers of otherwise great websites neglect page titles?
https://assetindexer.com/en/pages/pro-trader.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
https://weatherspark.com/y/47913/Average-Weather-in-Paris-Fr...
Open Data Network: http://www.opendatanetwork.com/
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/329323390
Scroll down to see lots of different kinds of data about a particular selected gene, with a navigation menu sticking at the top.
https://finviz.com/
https://ultrasound.money