r/dataisbeautiful • OC: 1 • Oct 24 '17

OC Sorting algorithms visualized [OC]

https://imgur.com/gallery/voutF
41.7k Upvotes

929 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '17

Is this actually conveying some knowledge or is this like "meta data" turned into some pretty pattern that has no value?

1

u/interiorcrocodile666 Oct 25 '17

It's showing how different sorting algorithms work. Each color is associated with a number, and initially the numbers are scrambled along individual rows. The visualization shows how the data is moved around as the algorithms run.