// an index of data-viz experiments
Each card below is its own repo, its own deploy, its own afternoon of poking around with open source data.
drewhoover.com/blog/bfme2-apple-silicon
Dragging The Battle for Middle-earth II — a 2006 DirectX 9 game — to a working main menu on an Apple Silicon Mac via CrossOver + Rosetta, no VM. The four fixes, a deep MoltenVK/DXVK rabbit hole, and clean-room tools — a SAGE .big archive tool and a minidump crash parser.
drewhoover.com/how-long-underwater
Every closing-price all-time high for 200+ tickers, plotted on a shared 30-year timeline and colored by how many trading days the price stayed at-or-below it afterward. Sometimes yes — green peaks were never undercut. Sometimes brutally no.
drewhoover.com/buy-it-now-or-never
When a stock closes at a new all-time high, how often is that price gone for good? An adjusted-close chart marks every ATH close that was never undercut afterward — the "you missed it forever" days — for SMH, SOXQ, QQQ, SPY, and the major semis.
drewhoo.github.io/space-rock
Interactive exploration of NASA's Meteorite Landings dataset — tens of thousands of records on a world map, filterable by year, mass, and classification. The whole thing runs in the browser on DuckDB-WASM.
drewhoover.com/boring-returns
A leaderboard of ~600 securities, each a forty-year strip of monthly squares colored by the annualized return you'd have earned holding to today. Ten percent a year — the long-run S&P average — is rendered in deliberate tan.
drewhoo.github.io/cfb-all-time-records
Every NCAA Division I national champion in 30 sports from 1990 to present, as a hoverable grid of school logos. Hover any cell to highlight every other championship that school has won across all sports and years.
drewhoo.github.io/cfb-all-time-records/football.html
All-time win/loss, bowl, and national title records for every current FBS program through the 2025 season. A sortable table with a minimum of ceremony.
drewhoo.github.io/shivering-deckbuilder
Deckbuilding app for Elder Scrolls: Legends — browse the full card set, filter by mechanics, and build decks in the browser.