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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 04:46:37 JST Information Is Beautiful

Interesting reframing. Cost of aid to #ukraine in cups of coffee per month.
(by @topleadEU)
In conversation about 3 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A map titled "Aid to Ukraine Costs a European 1.2 Cups of Coffee a Month" shows the total bilateral aid provided to Ukraine recalculated into cups of coffee per capita per month. European countries contribute amounts ranging from 0.7 to 7.7 cups, with Scandinavian and Baltic countries contributing the most: Norway at 7.7 cups, Estonia at 6.5 cups, and Latvia at 5.8 cups. The U.S. contributes 2.5 cups per month, while Japan and New Zealand contribute 0.2 and 0.1 cups, respectively. Sources include the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, World Bank, and Mandore Media.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 10:41:20 JST Information Is Beautiful

Oil
In conversation about 8 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Voronoi chart visualises the % of world's proven oil reserves by country, divided by OPEC (70.4% of reserves) and NON-OPEC nations (30.6%). Venezuela has the largest reserves at 18% with Saudi Arabia (17%) and Iran (9%) in 2nd & 3rd. Of the NON-OPEC nations, Canada has the largest at 10%, followed by Russia 6% and USA (4%)
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 05:55:20 JST Information Is Beautiful

An unhealthy outlier...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure?time=earliest..latest
In conversation about 13 days ago from vis.social permalink
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2. A line chart comparing life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita from 1970 to 2022 across multiple countries. The y-axis shows life expectancy (60-85 years), x-axis shows health expenditure ($0-$10,000). Lines track each country's progress, with the United States notably showing high expenditure but lower life expectancy than peers like Japan and Switzerland. Countries are color-coded by continent. Source: Our World in Data
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 18:24:29 JST Information Is Beautiful

Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
In conversation about 16 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A Sankey diagram shows how a total of the 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic ever produced by humanity has ended up either being totally discarded, incinerated or still in use. 31% are still in use. The remainder have been dumped or burnt.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 00:34:08 JST Information Is Beautiful

Ways to divide the world pt 17 of 185
In conversation about 20 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A world map infographic comparing annual per capita consumption of coffee versus tea, with countries shaded brown where coffee is consumed more and teal where tea is consumed more. Large swaths of the globe including most of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the UK are shown preferring tea, while North America, most of South America, much of Europe including Scandinavia, and Australia are shaded for coffee. The split shows clear regional trends: coffee dominates in the Americas, Northern and Central Europe, and Australia, while tea dominates in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The map is titled “COFFEE VS TEA What’s consumed more in cups per year,” with a key identifying coffee in brown and tea in teal, and cites Statista as the source. At the bottom is the logo for The World in Maps.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2025 03:15:03 JST Information Is Beautiful

The nearest other country...
(by @amazingmap)
In conversation about 20 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, 04-Dec-2025 01:48:25 JST Information Is Beautiful

Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
In conversation about 22 days ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Nov-2025 02:41:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

Pyramid pie
(creator: unknown)
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A pie chart titled with its legend "Sky", "Sunny side of pyramid", and "Shady side of pyramid". The majority of the circle, a large blue segment, represents "Sky". A smaller, bright yellow segment represents the "Sunny side of pyramid", and an even smaller, darker yellow segment represents the "Shady side of pyramid", creating a visual impression of a pyramid base within a circular sky.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Nov-2025 00:51:50 JST Information Is Beautiful

Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions
Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution
Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
https://www.apur.org
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A series of six heatmap-style graphics showing changes in pollution levels across Paris over time, with each square map labeled by year: 2007, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2024. The earlier maps in 2007 and 2010 are dominated by dense red and orange colors concentrated in the city center, with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame labeled, indicating heavy pollution. Over the years the intensity of red areas fades, especially in 2015 and 2017 where the pollution begins to spread less densely, and by 2020 the colors shift more toward yellow and green, showing significant reductions in pollution. The 2024 map is the cleanest, with the majority of the area in yellow and green tones and only major road arteries showing thin red lines, demonstrating far less air pollution. Each map includes a “2 miles” scale marker, and the visual progression highlights how bike lanes and car restrictions introduced in Paris contributed to decreasing air pollution levels throughout the city.
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  Page d'accueil | Apur
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Nov-2025 10:23:21 JST Information Is Beautiful

So far, we've managed to eradicate just one human disease: smallpox. But we’re getting closer to banishing a few others. Preventing suffering. Saving lives. Reducing the burden on healthcare systems.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1382-disease-eradication/
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. An infographic titled '10 Diseases We've Nearly Controlled or Eradicated' organized in four sections. At the top, 'on our way' shows leprosy (cases decreased by 15% from 2009 to 2018), malaria (over half the countries on Earth are now malaria-free), and rubella. The 'progress!' section includes onchocerciasis (described as 'elephantiasis' - a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes), rabies, lymphatic filariasis, and yaws (with a note that India eliminated this childhood disease in 2016). The 'nearly...' section lists African trypanosomiasis ('sleeping sickness' spread by the tsetse fly), polio, and guinea worm disease (described as a terrible affliction spread by contaminated drinking water). Finally, 'eradicated' shows only smallpox. Purple circles of varying sizes represent each disease, with size indicating global impact. Source: World Health Organisation, Our World in Data, via beautifulnews
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2025 07:51:27 JST Information Is Beautiful
- Our World in Data
Just the measles vaccine doing its thing...
https://ourworldindata.org/measles-vaccines-save-lives
by @ourworldindata
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A dense heatmap titled “Vaccines reduced measles cases across US states” showing reported measles cases per 100,000 people in all 50 US states from 1929 to 2022 with color-coded cells on a log scale from dark blue (high incidence, over 1,000 cases per 100,000) through green to pale yellow (low incidence, near zero), with white cells indicating missing data, with three key vertical lines marking major interventions: 1963 for the development of the first measles vaccine by John Enders, 1971 for the development of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine by Maurice Hilleman, and 1980 when vaccination became mandatory for kindergarten entry, showing a clear decline in measles incidence after these milestones with dark blue and green densities fading to mostly pale yellow after the 1980s, indicating near elimination of cases across states.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 02:56:24 JST Information Is Beautiful

#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced #charticle https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/dataviz-books/ Created in association with @DataVizSociety #iibwab
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A screenshot of a scrolling array of books on data-visualisation divided into several categories: creative works, curated collections, how to and theory book. Over 169 titles.
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  Data-Visualization Books Everyone Should Read — Information is Beautiful
  
  from @infobeautiful
  
  Want something new for your bookshelf? Here's our library of dataviz books everyone should read.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:59:32 JST Information Is Beautiful

Charting human migration over deep time
(via https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/media/2013-01-a-walk-through-time)
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  National Geographic Out of Eden Walk
  
  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego.
2. A map titled "A WALK THROUGH TIME" showing human migration patterns from Africa across the globe over 200,000 years. The route is color-coded in rainbow bands from red (oldest, 200-60 thousand years ago) through yellow, green, blue, to pink (most recent, 15-10 thousand years ago). A white line traces the 21,000-mile walking route from East Africa ("Start") to South America ("Finish"). The map uses Fuller projection to straighten the circumglobal route.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 21:59:05 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 Monday, 17-Nov-2025 05:10:22 JST Information Is Beautiful

Should you trust that doctor? (maybe more relevant today than ever)
(by instagram user @sheadoodles)
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A humorous infographic titled "Should You Trust That Doctor?" from CollegeHumor. The infographic categorizes various fictional and real-life doctors based on their qualifications and trustworthiness. It features a range of doctors, including Dr. Huxtable, Dr. Quinn, Dr. Strange, Doogie Howser, Dr. Seuss, Doc Brown, Doc, J.D., Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Spin Doctors, Dr. Fishman, Dr. Dre, Dr. Mario, Dr. Oz, Zoidberg, Dr. Horrible, Dr. Phil, Doctor Venture, Dr. Spaceman, Dr. Robotnik, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Evil, Dr. Pepper, and Hannibal Lecter. The infographic uses a visual scale to indicate levels of trust, ranging from "Trust with your life" to "Run. Run very far.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 04:51:20 JST Information Is Beautiful

One of humanity's greatest achievements
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1208-fewer-children-dying/ #bnews
In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A line chart plots a dramatic trend in the % of children dying before the age of 5 worldwide. In 1820, the figure is 43%, which stays fairly constant until the beginning of the 1900s and then plummets dramatically to just 3.7% in 2020. A spike to 38.5% in 1918 marks the outbreak of the 'Spanish Flu'
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  Fewer Children Are Dying — Beautiful News
  
  from Information is Beautiful
  
  Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 09:10:56 JST Information Is Beautiful

interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
via Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1glxoag/oc_us_presidential_election_results_as_percentage/
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Chart showing US presidential election results from 1976-2024, displaying percentage of eligible voters who did not vote and those who voted for different candidates. Data is arranged by year with color-coding: yellow for non-voters (typically 38-49%), blue for Democratic candidates, and red for Republican candidates. Stars indicate trifecta wins."
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  [OC] U.S. Presidential Election Results as Percentage of Voter-Eligible Population, 1976-2020, including preliminary 2024 results
  
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 07:51:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

Cars per 1,000 inhabitants
source: Wikipedia
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A choropleth map of Europe illustrating the number of cars per thousand inhabitants. Countries are shaded in different colors ranging from dark red to light orange, corresponding to different ranges of car ownership. A legend at the bottom left indicates that dark red represents more than 600 cars per thousand inhabitants, while light orange represents 100-199 cars per thousand inhabitants. Numerical values are overlaid on each country, showing the specific number of cars per thousand inhabitants. Western and Central European countries generally exhibit higher car ownership rates, while Eastern European countries tend to have lower rates.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 04:26:49 JST Information Is Beautiful

Most of the world’s solar panels are fixed in one position. But what if they tracked the movement of the sun?
http://beautifulne.ws/1343 #bnews
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. An infographic showing how combining different solar panel technologies could boost energy production. Four circular icons illustrate different types: single-sided fixed panels and double-sided panels (in cyan, representing fixed orientation), and single-axis and dual-axis panels (in yellow, representing sun-tracking technology). Curved lines show that combining these technologies could increase energy production by 35% when using single-axis tracking and 40% with dual-axis tracking
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  Combining Solar Panel Technologies Could Boost Energy Production by a Third — Beautiful News
  
  from Information is Beautiful
  
  Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Nov-2025 00:58:54 JST Information Is Beautiful

Timeline of every Star Wars film and show - wiith Jar Jar filter
interactive:
https://erik.nz/sw/
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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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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