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.
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?
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.
I created this data dashboard with Observable Framework[1] and Rust-Script[2] so I can check-in daily to better understand the data collected during Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)[3] sessions.
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.
I've stopped playing these past few months but probably the one that I kept going back to was this website to check stats for Escape From Tarkov's ammunition: https://www.eft-ammo.com/
FWIW this app used to be much more basic and worse before Apple bought a company (DarkSky) that was really good at making their own weather app and essentially incorporated DarkSky’s design into Weather. Which offers a little insight as to why their app is uniquely better - apparently building a great weather app is not as straightforward as one might think.
In terms of really great well-designed apps that aren’t Apple’s the Norwegian meteorological agency maintains a really nice one called yr.no. It’s totally free (paid for by Norwegian taxes) and available worldwide. I use it in Scandinavia all the time, but less so in the States because like in your case the accuracy is diminished the further away you get from Norway. I bet it works pretty well in the UK though given the UK’s proximity to Norway.
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.
OT: But, someone please help - almost every one of the links on this page do not show for me when I am logged in - I have to logout to read the comments.
This is how it is for me on many many HN pages. I assume because link only replies are auto-set to below some threshold, as are anything with even one downvote.
How can I change that? I set "showdead" -> yes in my profile. What else can I set?
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/
I reach for it several times per week. Never struggle finding what I want, nor getting it into the shape I want it.