Data is Beautiful

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/43884598

NCBI Tree of Life

Felt cute, might delete later.

Entire taxonomy tree visible at once, 1M+ taxa. Based on NCBI database, layout made with Voronoi Treemap.

• Now with smooth zooming;
• Can switch between higher/lower scaling;
• Pale prerendered labels from higher zoom level;
• Thin stroke of polygons from lower zoom level;
• Without unclassified taxa;
• NCBI provides very detailed hierarchy.

Previous versions:

• GBIF Force-directed, (post)
• ITIS Voronoi, (post)

Dataset is here: taxdmp.zip.