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> "What I still don't understand is why there isn't a Wikipedia for explorables."

write one and maybe include that fact as a resume / interview item :)

All his visualizations are open source.

I nice companion project for it would be a tool for creating these 'explorable explanations'. Anyone know if any good attempts have been made at that yet?

https://beta.observablehq.com/collection/explorables

http://aprt.us https://github.com/cdglabs/apparatus

http://explorabl.es

https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/

To add to your list, I recently saw an HN submission where a PhD student made a markdown-derivative with some explorable features, not sure what it was called though.

The closest I know of are the widgets in Khan Academy