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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 02:30:49 JST Information Is Beautiful

A little beautiful news
In conversation about 4 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Four line graphs comparing electric vehicle adoption rates from 2010 to 2023 across different regions. The graphs show the percentage of electric vehicles as a share of total car sales. China leads with 38%, followed by Europe at 21%, while worldwide adoption is at 18%, and the US lags at 9.5%. All regions show minimal growth from 2010 to around 2020, followed by sharp increases in recent years, with China's growth being particularly dramatic. Source: IEA Global EV Outlook 2024, Guardian graphic.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 01:52:55 JST Information Is Beautiful

All of US history took place while Pluto orbited the Sun - once
In conversation about 5 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Four circles represent the orbits Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The latter is the outer circle. A timeline of the US history is mapped onto it. Milestones like independence and the moon landings are mapped. We see that while all of US history happened Pluto orbited the Sun just once
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 00:20:12 JST Information Is Beautiful

What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data?
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-can-we-do-personally-to-reduce-emissions/
In conversation about 5 days ago from vis.social permalink
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  Information is Beautiful
  
  from @infobeautiful
  
  Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations
2. A bar chart depicts personal actions that can reduce emissions, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year. Drop the car is the first option with 2.4 tonnes saved. Take fewer flights is 2nd with 1.6. Switching to a plant-based diet, reducing food waste, changing to LED lightbulbs also included
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 08:13:55 JST Information Is Beautiful

Global antidepressant use
(source OECD, CDC)
In conversation about 7 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A bar chart showing the number of people per 1,000 who take antidepressants in various countries. The countries with the highest rates are the United States, Iceland, and Australia. The data is sourced from the OECD and CDC.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 01:56:42 JST Information Is Beautiful

One 18 inch pizza has 'more pizza' than 2 x 12 inch pizzas!
via @fermatslibrary
In conversation about 8 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Comparison of pizza sizes and their areas. Left: one 18-inch diameter pepperoni pizza with area = π(18/2)² = 254 in². Right: two 12-inch diameter pepperoni pizzas with combined area = 2π(12/2)² = 226 in². Demonstrates that one large pizza has more surface area than two smaller ones
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:28:44 JST Information Is Beautiful

The nearest other country...
(by @amazingmap)
In conversation about 13 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A map of the contiguous United States with transparent overlays of the outlines of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Canada's outline is shown in pink and covers the northernmost states. Mexico's outline is in green and covers the southwestern states. Cuba's outline is in blue and is positioned over Florida. The Bahamas' outline is in yellow and is located to the east of Florida. An inset map shows a small portion of Russia and Canada overlaid on the Aleutian Islands.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 04:32:15 JST Information Is Beautiful

Kinda amazing how we can model this. The tectonic movement of the world's continents from 1,000 million years ago until today
(by @nytimes)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/tectonic-plates-continental-drift.html
In conversation about 16 days ago from vis.social permalink
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 21:18:51 JST Information Is Beautiful

How the concept of marriage has changed across centuries 💘
In conversation about 17 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Diagram shows how the perception of marriage in the West changed over the centuries and in relation to romance, love and sex. Pre-17th century marriage was an economic and political contract negotiated between families. Love happened outside of marriage. This changed over time. From the 17th to 19th century love was arranged but expected to be a starting point for romance and love. Later, romance lead to marriage and then love. And since the 1960s a progression from sex to romance, then love and only then marriage seems to be the prominent model.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 03:25:20 JST Information Is Beautiful

If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
In conversation about 18 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Bar chart shows the % of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in a lifetime with bars of different length for ages from 5 to 100 years. More emissions happen over a longer lifetime. During the life of an 85 year old, 90% of all emissions happened. For someone age of 30 the rate is already 50%
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 02:14:22 JST Information Is Beautiful

Every Hotel Bar Ever (by Matt Surelee)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=951361079682432&id=100044256467986&set=a.198895061595708
In conversation about 19 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A simple diagram amusingly plots the typical denizens of a hotel bar.
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  Facebookにログイン
  
  Facebookにログインして、友達や家族と写真や近況をシェアしましょう。
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:07:53 JST Information Is Beautiful

Truthpaste! Love this labelling - let's roll it out across all products
In conversation about 20 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Reverse side of a toothpaste packaging showing a table which lists each ingredient, where it comes from and what it does.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 02:31:16 JST Information Is Beautiful

Deep truth
(creator: unknown)
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Image depicting alignment chart with different monitor setups. Each setup corresponds to alignments like lawful good with three horizontal monitors, neutral good with two, chaotic good with one horizontal and one vertical, lawful neutral with one monitor and a laptop, true neutral with one monitor, chaotic neutral with one horizontal and one vertical, lawful evil with two stacked monitors, neutral evil with two side-by-side vertical monitors, and chaotic evil with an irregular stack of monitors.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 05:20:52 JST Information Is Beautiful

Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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  UsefulCharts.com
  
  History Wallcharts
2. Infographic showing the "Evolution of the Alphabet" from Proto-Sinaitic (c. 1750 BCE) to Modern Latin Script. Colorful arrows trace the development of each letter through Phoenician, Archaic Greek, Archaic Latin, and Roman scripts, culminating in the modern 26-letter alphabet. The image demonstrates how letter shapes transformed over time.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 16:49:50 JST Information Is Beautiful

Africa is BIG
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. An infographic showing the true size of Africa (30.4m km²) compared to other major countries and regions. Six maps overlay different regions on Africa's outline to demonstrate scale: Russia (17.1m km²), U.S. (9.8m km²), China (9.6m km²), Brazil (8.5m km²), Europe excluding Russia (5.9m km²), and India (3.3m km²). Each comparison is color-coded and labeled with its area.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 02:14:00 JST Information Is Beautiful

Child's play
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In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A parody image of a LEGO Excel set, featuring a LEGO minifigure in business attire looking at spreadsheets across three monitors on a desk. The desk includes office supplies and the box has typical LEGO set styling with a piece count range of "4-J" and other mock product details.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 02:07:26 JST Information Is Beautiful

Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection
https://brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-true-size/
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. World map using a Mercator projection, but with the true relative sizes of countries overlaid in a darker shade. This illustrates how the standard Mercator projection distorts the size of landmasses, particularly those further from the equator, by showing the actual size differences. For example, Canada and Russia appear much smaller in their true relative size compared to their depiction in a standard Mercator projection.
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  Map Projections: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country
  
  from Brilliant Maps
  
  Map found via reddit, click for larger versionWhile it's well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:00:43 JST Information Is Beautiful

Dude, bro, buddy, fella
by Quartz @qz
https://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. This image is a map of the continental United States showing regional usage of the word "bro" as a term of address among American men. Titled "BRO" in large purple text at the top left, the map uses varying shades of pink to purple to indicate frequency, with darker areas showing higher usage. The darkest regions—suggesting "bro" is very common—are concentrated in Texas and surrounding states including Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and parts of the South and Midwest. The Northeast and West Coast show lighter shades, indicating lower usage. Above the map, gray buttons labeled “buddy,” “dude,” “fella,” and “pal” suggest that the map is part of a broader interactive dataset showing regional slang preferences. A small credit in the bottom left attributes the source as Quartz, based on Twitter data analyzed by Grieve and Guo.
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  The dude map: How Americans refer to their bros
  
  from Nikhil Sonnad
  
  That's a sweet dude map, bro.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 00:10:32 JST Information Is Beautiful

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A scatter plot titled "Fair and square? Russian federal elections, 2000-21" which visualizes the results of Russian federal elections. The x-axis represents voter turnout in percentage, ranging from 0 to 100%. The y-axis represents the percentage of votes for Putin, Medvedev, or the United Russia party, also ranging from 0 to 100%. Each dot on the plot represents a polling station. A cluster of dots appears in the upper right corner, indicating high voter turnout and a high percentage of votes for the specified candidates. A dashed rectangle highlights a grid-like pattern of dots at numbers ending in zero and five, with an annotation suggesting this pattern indicates potential foul play. The source is cited as Kobak and Shpilkin (2021).
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 09:36:33 JST Information Is Beautiful

The movement of the magnetic North Pole over 400 years
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/science/north-magnetic-pole-model.html
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2. A map titled 'Heading North' showing the movement of Earth's north magnetic pole from 1590 to 2019. The map displays the Arctic region, including parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, and Svalbard. A blue line traces the magnetic pole's path from southern Canada in 1590, meandering northward through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago until 1900, then continuing as a dotted line toward Russia through 2019. The geographic North Pole is marked with a black square. The map illustrates that the magnetic pole is moving about 35 miles closer to Russia each year.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 20:59:50 JST Information Is Beautiful

Sweet teeth in the East. How much sugar in Fanta
via @simongerman600
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Map of Europe showing sugar content in Fanta Orange per 100ml across different countries. Color-coded in green (less than 5g), yellow (5-10g), and red (more than 10g). Values range from 3.8g in Austria to 11.8g in Switzerland, with Iceland shown separately at 10.6g. Source cited as Coca-Cola Company.
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Data visualizations & information graphics by David McCandless. Making sense of the world - well, trying to - since 2009.#InformationIsBeautiful #KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DataViz

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