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Data Visualization Examples

Live, interactive visualizations built from real, credited Canadian data: community grants, tourism, a city budget, a business district and national heritage. Each one works with a keyboard and a screen reader, and has a text view of every record.

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The audit page: the title Ontario Trillium Foundation, Audited, a map of Ontario made of one dot per grant, and four headline numbers: 32,994 grants, $2.95B approved, 27 complete fiscal years, 16 catchments.

AUDIT - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

Ontario Trillium Foundation, Audited

27 years of OTF grants examined from every angle: seven numbered findings, a stated method and an inflation-adjusted view. Every chart has its numbers as text.

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Ontario's 2025 exports as dots: 11 destinations as spokes around a ring, with the United States and the United Kingdom breaking out as large blocks.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & HERITAGE

Where Ontario's exports go

Ontario's domestic exports to 216 destinations since 2000, one dot per $150 million. The US share fell from 93.2% to 71.6% as gold surged.

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LIVE DEMO - MUNICIPALITIES

Surrey City Centre development map

950 development applications in Surrey City Centre on a real map, with walking times to SkyTrain. 74 of the 115 active ones are within a 10 minute walk.

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Toronto at night, each glow one of the City's 213,618 streetlight poles, brightest downtown, with major roads labelled.

LIVE DEMO - MUNICIPALITIES

Toronto Grid Pulse

213,618 streetlight poles, 4,439 active development sites, 82 City-run chargers and 688,335 street trees on one real map of Toronto, with a narrated tour for each.

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Canadian Honey Bee Explorer: a map of Canada with honey bee colonies drawn as golden hexagons, about 1,000 colonies each, clustered in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Alberta holds 308,200 colonies, 38% of the nine provinces.

LIVE DEMO - AGRICULTURE

Canadian Honey Bee Explorer

854,653 colonies, a century of honey and every winter's losses since 2007, in four narrated stories with a map for each.

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Canada Commutes: the Golden Horseshoe at night, glowing streams of commuters between Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga, Hamilton, Kitchener and Niagara.

LIVE DEMO - MUNICIPALITIES

Canada Commutes

Every town-to-town commute in the 2021 Census on one animated map of Canada: 4,287,965 people crossing a town line to work, with four narrated tours and live traffic cameras.

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Where Ontario's grants went: a bar chart of Ontario Trillium Foundation dollars by catchment area with Toronto highlighted at $20.0M, and a story card reading Almost one dollar in five, 18.1%.

LIVE DEMO - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

Where Ontario's grants went

One year of Ontario Trillium Foundation grants, $110.3M, in four narrated stories: where it went, Toronto's share, grant sizes and who gets the most per person.

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Down the Escarpment: a 3D satellite map of the Welland Canal from Allanburg to Lake Ontario, with Locks 1 to 7, the ship near Thorold and an elevation staircase from Lake Erie at 174.2 m to Lake Ontario at 74.8 m.

LIVE DEMO - TOURISM

Down the Escarpment

A freighter's trip through the 8 Welland Canal locks on a 3D map, 99.5 m down the Niagara Escarpment, with four narrated tours and 67 seasons of traffic.

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LIVE DEMO - ANNUAL REPORTS

Muskoka Tourism's 2026 Annual Plan

A 23 page annual plan PDF as one branded page: 14 chapters, four narrated tours, a narrated walkthrough and a branded PDF of any chapter.

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The Restless Lake: Lake Ontario filled with glowing streaks that follow the modelled surface current, coloured by speed.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENT

The Restless Lake

Two days of modelled surface currents on Lake Ontario. Every streak follows the current; the west basin peaks at 63.8 cm/s.

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Above the Falls: the upper Niagara River with pale blue streaks splitting around Grand Island into the Chippawa and Tonawanda channels.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENT

Above the Falls

Lake Erie's water around Grand Island to the hydro intakes. Modelled, 63.1% takes the Chippawa Channel; the published figure is about 60%.

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Wind Over the Lakes: Southern Ontario and the lower Great Lakes scattered with streaks that follow the modelled 10 m wind, coloured by speed.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENT

Wind Over the Lakes

Two days of modelled wind over Southern Ontario and the lower Great Lakes, 2.8 times as strong over the lakes as over land.

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Downtown Pulse: downtown Toronto streets with glowing counted road segments and small dots travelling along them, coloured by measured speed.

LIVE DEMO - MUNICIPAL

Downtown Pulse

A typical weekday on the 145 road segments the City counted. The 5:30 p.m. peak reaches 44,591 vehicles an hour.

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Map of Ontario made of dots, one for every Ontario Trillium Foundation grant since 1999, coloured by year. Southern Ontario is densest; 2,325 province-wide grants sit in a labelled group beside the map.

LIVE DEMO - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

Ontario community grants since 1999

Every Ontario Trillium Foundation grant since 1999: 32,994 grants and $2.95B, one dot each.

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A guided tour of 32,994 Ontario Trillium Foundation grants on a map of Ontario.

LIVE DEMO - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

A guided tour of 32,994 grants

Press Story and the grants regroup step by step: the largest region, the biggest program, the peak year.

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Ontario Trillium Foundation grants on a map of Ontario with a search box to find a community.

LIVE DEMO - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

What did your community get?

Type a city, organization or OTF catchment. Its grants light up across every year, with its total, share and best year.

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1,033 Ontario Trillium Foundation grants from 2023-24 shown as dots.

LIVE DEMO - NONPROFITS & FUNDERS

One year of grants, five views

1,033 OTF grants from 2023-24 ($110.3M) as dots, bars, a map, a timeline and a flow.

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Muskoka's tourism listings as dots among the region's real lakes.

CLIENT WORK - TOURISM

Muskoka tourism

327 tourism listings among Muskoka's real lakes, explored by category and by town.

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Toronto's 2025 operating budget flowing from programs to expense categories.

LIVE DEMO - MUNICIPALITIES

Toronto's budget, flowing

$18.13B of 2025 gross operating spending, moving from City programs to what the money is spent on.

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Storefront businesses in the Downtown Yonge BIA as dots inside its boundary.

LIVE DEMO - BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREAS

Downtown Yonge storefront businesses

348 businesses in the BIA, each at its official City address, by licence type.

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Food premises inspected by DineSafe inside the Downtown Yonge BIA, coloured by street.

LIVE DEMO - BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREAS

Downtown Yonge food premises

368 food premises inspected by DineSafe, on 62 streets inside the BIA, coloured by street.

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Federal heritage designations placed by year along a timeline.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & HERITAGE

Canada's heritage designations over time

3,889 federal heritage designations, each placed by the year it was designated, 1919 to 2026.

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A map of Canada shaded by the number of federal heritage designations in each province.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & HERITAGE

Heritage designations by province

2,607 designations on real Statistics Canada provincial boundaries, with the rest shown alongside.

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Stacked area chart of federal heritage designations by type, decade by decade.

LIVE DEMO - RESEARCH & HERITAGE

Heritage designations by decade

All 3,889 designations, stacked by type, decade by decade from the 1910s.

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A dashboard of Ontario Trillium Foundation granting with headline figures, a line chart and a donut chart.

LIVE DEMO - DASHBOARDS & TOOLS

A grants dashboard

Headline figures, dollars over time and where the latest year went, from one OTF dataset.

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The try-it-with-your-data tool showing a sample spreadsheet as dots.

TOOL - DASHBOARDS & TOOLS

Try it with your data

Open a CSV and see it visualized in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.

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Could your data look like this?

Tell us what you have: a spreadsheet, a database, an open dataset or a website full of listings. We will show you what it could become.