Good examples would be n Timeline JS a great timeline visualisation tool that can be easily managed via Google Spreadsheets and in any website. TimelineJS s n Open Budget a visualization web app for hierarchical budgets open-budget s n WordPress Post Forking a plugin that adds GitHub logic to WordPress s s n CartoDB Torque a toolkit for mapping time-related big data sets. torque s n simple and lightweight framework for building interactive map applications. s n Luminous Flux the article rethought. lflux s n Real Time Map. real-time-map s n Datawrapper simple yet powerful tool for data visualisations. datawrapper s n Superscrollorama jQuery plugin for creating parallax pages like the now-famous NYT feature uabSnow Fallubb superscrollorama s Make sure to have a look at newly launched Source which is doing pretty much the same as this thread here. They collect code for journalism. s s