Chee Aun 🤔Mar 1

Data folks from The Straits Times made a very cool dataviz story of Pokémon, to celebrate the 30th anniversary https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2026/02/pokemon-tree-of-life/index.html

#Dataviz #DataStoryTelling

The Pokemon tree of life

To celebrate 30 years of catching ’em all, discover the parallels between the Pokemon universe and our own.

The Straits Times
Show threadChee Aun 🤔
And of course, there's Phanpy.
Mar 1 at 12:46amPhanpy
Show threadChee Aun 🤔Mar 1

This sentence caught my attention:
> Several scientists have named their discoveries after Pokemon, in a case of life imitating art.

…because I built Repokémon https://github.com/cheeaun/repokemon where several developers have named their projects after Pokemon 😉

Did a search and found this "List of references to Pokémon in science" https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_references_to_Pok%C3%A9mon_in_science — there's like 4 of them with "pikachu" in the name.

Show threadEltrac Mar 1
Scientists naming animals after Pokemons… The idea of that. It’s simply adorable. They even have all the three legendary birds on that list.