Attribution & Licenses

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Much of the content introduced and localized on Explorable Explanations was created by researchers and developers outside Japan. This page lists, for each article, the original creator or source and the license information we were able to confirm.

About this site’s articles

The commentary written by Yuichi Yazaki (learning objectives, walkthroughs, background sections, and so on) is published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, the same as the rest of this site. This applies only to the writing on this site — the third-party tools introduced or embedded below remain under whatever license their original creators have set.

Original creators and licenses by article

Article	Original creator / source	License	Original site / repository
Transformer Explainer	Georgia Tech Polo Club (Aeree Cho et al.)	MIT License	github.com/poloclub/transformer-explainer
CNN Explainer	Georgia Tech Polo Club (Zijie J. Wang et al.)	MIT License	github.com/poloclub/cnn-explainer
GAN Lab	Minsuk Kahng, Nikhil Thorat, Polo Chau, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg (Georgia Tech / Google Brain)	Apache License 2.0	github.com/poloclub/ganlab
Diffusion Explainer	Georgia Tech Polo Club	MIT License	github.com/poloclub/diffusion-explainer
Embedding Projector	Google (part of the TensorFlow project)	Apache License 2.0	github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard
TensorFlow Playground	Daniel Smilkov, Shan Carter	Apache License	github.com/tensorflow/playground
AI Explorables	Google PAIR	Apache License 2.0	github.com/PAIR-code/ai-explorables
MLU-Explain	Amazon (AWS Machine Learning University)	Custom license (see repository)	github.com/aws-samples/aws-mlu-explain
Vega-Altair	Jake VanderPlas, Brian Granger, et al. (University of Washington Interactive Data Lab)	BSD 3-Clause License	github.com/vega/altair
Easing Functions Cheat Sheet	Andrey Sitnik, Ivan Solovev	GPL-3.0 License	github.com/ai/easings.net
Parable of the Polygons	Vi Hart + Nicky Case	See original site for exact terms (much of Nicky Case’s work is released as CC0)	ncase.me/polygons
How to Use t-SNE Effectively	Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas, Ian Johnson (Distill.pub)	CC BY 2.0	distill.pub/2016/misread-tsne
Learning Network Visualization	Elijah Meeks	Follows the terms on the author’s personal site (no explicit license stated)	elijahmeeks.com/networkviz
MNIST MLP Inference Visualization	DFin	Apache License 2.0	github.com/DFin/Neural-Network-Visualisation
Classification Methods Visualization	Yuichi Yazaki (original work created for this site)	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	-
Map Projections with Face Photos	Yuichi Yazaki (original work created for this site; sample GeoJSON data provided by Alex Woodruff)	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	-
Map Tile Browser	Yuichi Yazaki (original work created for this site)	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	-

A note on accuracy

The information above reflects what we could confirm from each site or repository. If you notice an error or a change, please get in touch using the contact details on the About page and we’ll correct it promptly.

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Explorable Explanations is run by Yuichi Yazaki, a data visualization specialist.

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Yuichi holds a master’s degree in Design Science from Chiba Institute of Technology’s graduate school. He spent seven years as a UI designer and art director at Business Architects Inc. before going independent. Since then, he has been active in data visualization practice and outreach through corporate and academic training and lectures (including Sony, Nikon, and NTT Communications), teaching at universities and graduate schools (including Tama Art University, Musashino Art University, and Digital Hollywood University Graduate School), and running the “Data Visualization Japan” community.

Founder of Data Visualization Japan. Yahoo! News Expert.

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データ可視化の基本が全部わかる本 (Shoeisha, 2024)
RESASの教科書 (Nikkei BP, 2016, co-authored)

Visualizing.JP — a site sharing data visualization knowledge and practice
Notation LLC — a data visualization company offering training, books, and tools
Data Visualization Lectures — training courses for individuals and organizations

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Explorable Explanations introduces outstanding explorable (interactive, hands-on) learning materials from around the world in Japanese, and hosts localized versions of some of them.

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