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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 09:51:41 JST Information Is Beautiful

Truthpaste! Love this labelling - let's roll it out across all products
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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 Monday, 23-Mar-2026 23:34:21 JST Information Is Beautiful

Czechia trolls the Russian Embassy in Prague by renaming the streets :)
(By reddit user /nezvany_host)
In conversation about 4 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A map of Prague highlighting the area around the Russian Embassy, which is colored red. Surrounding streets and areas are colored blue and renamed with politically charged names. "BORIS NEMTSOV SQUARE" is to the southwest, "ALEXEY NAVALNY OUTLOOK" is to the northwest, "ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA PROMENADE" is to the north, and "UKRAINIAN HEROES STREET" is to the south of the Russian Embassy. A small Czech flag and "PRAGUE" are at the top left.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 18:59:58 JST Information Is Beautiful

While migration is a thorny political topic in many EU countries, the demographic data shows that most nations will see collapsing populations by 2100 without it.
Interactive piece
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised
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  Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised
  
  How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality
2. A map of Europe visualizing projected population changes by the year 2100. The map uses a color gradient, with darker shades of red indicating a greater projected population decrease and darker shades of blue indicating a greater projected population increase. A legend shows a range of -75% to +75% change. The map also includes a toggle to switch between projections with and without migration considered. The title "Visualised: Europe's population crisis" is prominently displayed, along with a call to action to "See how your country compares.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2026 20:10:23 JST Information Is Beautiful

And the cheapest beer in Europe is found in...
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1. An infographic map of Europe titled “How much does a beer cost?” shows the average price of a 0.5 litre domestic draught beer in restaurants in euros with countries colour coded by price range including dark green for below €2, light green for €2–4, yellow for €4–6, orange for €6–8 and red for over €8, with Western and Northern European countries generally higher priced such as Norway in red at €8.48, Sweden around €6.56, Finland about €7, Denmark about €6.7, Ireland €6 and the United Kingdom €5.23, while France is marked at €6, Germany and Belgium at €4, the Netherlands at €5, Switzerland around €7.45 and Italy at €5, Southern Europe shows Spain at €3 and Portugal at €2.5, Central and Eastern Europe are mostly green including Poland at €3.24, Czechia €1.98, Slovakia €2, Hungary €2.01, Romania €2.01, Bulgaria €2 and Ukraine €0.89, with the Baltic states between about €4 and €5, Belarus at €1.12, Russia at €1.6, Greece at €4.5 and Turkey at €2.73, and a small legend explains the colour categories with the source credited to Numbeo in the corner.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2026 02:12:25 JST Information Is Beautiful

50 Cent adjusted for inflation :)
In conversation about 4 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. This image is a humorous data visualization titled “50 Cent adjusted for inflation: 110 Cent,” featuring three repeated headshots of rapper 50 Cent at the top. Below, a line graph plots “Cent” on the y-axis (0 to 120) against “Time” on the x-axis (1995 to 2025). The line starts at 0 until June 1994—when 50 Cent’s stage name was adopted—then jumps vertically to 50, and rises gradually thereafter, reaching 110 by 2025, marked with a black dot. The caption clarifies this is a pun: “50 Cent” the artist’s name, not currency, is humorously treated as if it were a monetary value inflated over time using BLS inflation data. A footnote states: “Based on 50 Cent’s name being coined in June 1994, inflation data from BLS. Made by Brian Moore.” The graphic uses minimal design—black lines on white background—to emphasize the joke linking the rapper’s name to economic indexing.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 00:06:22 JST Information Is Beautiful

Topographical map of Europe
by @cstats1
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1. A three-dimensional digital elevation model of Europe, rendered as a relief map. The map shows the topography of the continent, with different colors representing varying altitudes. Low-lying areas, such as the northern European plain, are depicted in light blue and green, while mountainous regions like the Alps, Pyrenees, and Carpathians are shown as elevated spikes in shades of orange and brown. The map has a slight drop shadow, giving it a floating appearance, and shows a range of terrain from the British Isles to the Ural Mountains and Scandinavia. The bottom right corner credits the creator, @cstats1, and the data source, NOAA ETOPO1.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 19:43:50 JST Information Is Beautiful

Six ways to divide England *linguistically*
by @starkeycomics
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1. This infographic titled “Six ways to divide England linguistically” presents six distinct maps of England, each illustrating a different regional linguistic variation through color-coded regions and corresponding legends, beginning with the term used for evening meal—red for “Tea,” blue for “Dinner,” and yellow for “Supper”—followed by the playground game played at school, where yellow represents “Tig,” light blue “Tag,” red “Tick,” orange “Tiggy,” and dark blue “Tap”; the third map shows regional terms for a medium-sized lump of bread, using green for “Bun,” red for “Roll,” brown for “Muffin,” blue for “Bap,” yellow for “Cob,” orange for “Teacake,” and light blue for “Barm”; the fourth map explores whether “scone” rhymes with “gone” (green), “probably gone” (light green), or “alone” (orange); the fifth examines whether “put” and “but” share the same vowel sound, with blue indicating they rhyme and green indicating they do not; and the sixth depicts the most spoken language across regions, with blue for English and orange for areas where Old English is mixed with Scots and Viking influences; each map uses clear color coding and simple labels to highlight how everyday vocabulary and pronunciation vary across England’s geography, and the image credits @samesamebutdifferentblog and @starkeycomics.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Mar-2026 09:49:44 JST Information Is Beautiful

Increasing power of different fireworks - visualized!
(by Reddit user: u/Closed_Aperture)
https://bit.ly/RedditFireworks
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Mar-2026 06:19:07 JST Information Is Beautiful

The side of the Earth we’re not used to seeing
The Pacific Ocean covers 32.4% of the planet’s surface (more than all land & ice combined)
The ocean’s widest point is 19,800km. The circumference of the Earth’s equator is 40,075km
(via reddit https://bit.ly/EarthSide)
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2. Satellite view of Earth showing primarily the Pacific Ocean side, with minimal visible landmasses. The image shows Earth as a blue sphere against the black of space, with a bright rim of atmospheric glow along the edge. This perspective showcases the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, which dominates most of the visible hemisphere, with only small portions of land visible near the edges, likely parts of Antarctica and South America. The ocean appears as various shades of deep blue, with some cloud patterns visible across its surface.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Mar-2026 06:46:36 JST Information Is Beautiful

How the makeup of US households have changed 1960 vs today
(by @VisualCapitalist)
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1. A stacked bar chart showing the evolution of U.S. household composition from 1960 to 2023. The chart illustrates the changing proportions of married parents, single parents, married couples without children, and single adults without children. Key takeaways include a significant increase in households without children and a decrease in households with married parents.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 01:58:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

Revealing cross section of a road in England
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1. Cross-section of road layers titled "A SLICE OF THE A303". Shows historical road types from modern to ancient: Modern 'A' Road, Turnpike Road, Medieval Cart Track, Roman Road, Bronze Age Trackway, Buried Turfline, and Natural Chalk. Each layer is illustrated with corresponding transportation icons, from cars to prehistoric animals.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 11:39:07 JST Information Is Beautiful

Interesting way of visualizing government budgets
via https://usafacts.org/reports/annual-report/
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1. A detailed financial diagram showing U.S. federal government revenue ($4.5T) and spending ($6.2T) for 2023. Left side shows revenue sources in blue (including income taxes, Social Security, Medicare), right side shows spending categories in purple, with a $1.7T deficit highlighted. The visualization uses a waterfall chart style.
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  America in Facts 2025 | USAFacts
  
  from @USAFacts
  
  To find solutions to issues affecting the United States, everyone needs data to understand how the government is serving the people.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 01:30:21 JST Information Is Beautiful

The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city
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1. A line chart plots global capacity of solar power measured in gigawatts. From 2010 capacity starts to grow exponentially, way beyond a series of predictions drawn as lines in yellow. Actual installations have been more than 3x higher than their five year forecasts.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 06:25:45 JST Information Is Beautiful

US childhood vaccination rates continue to drop. 95% → ~92%: Small numbers, big implications for public health 💉
(source New York Times @nytimes)
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1. A line graph titled 'Share of U.S. kindergartners vaccinated against...' showing vaccination rates from 2011-12 to 2024-25 for measles (green), polio (brown), and whooping cough (yellow). The graph shows all three diseases maintaining around 95% vaccination rates until 2019-20, after which they decline to approximately 93%. A horizontal line at 95% indicates the 'FEDERAL MEASLES TARGET'. Source: The New York Times.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 06:26:19 JST Information Is Beautiful

At a glance, Canada looks vast and evenly spread but when you divide the country by population, the picture changes dramatically...
by @the.world.in.maps
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1. This map titled “CANADA DIVIDED INTO 4 EQUAL POPULATION ZONES” visually reconfigures Canada’s geography by grouping its provinces and territories into four distinct regions—each colored differently (yellow, purple, green, red)—so that each zone contains nearly identical populations as of 2015, with the yellow zone accounting for 8,558,260 people, the purple for 8,638,410, the green for 8,613,515, and the red for 8,672,594, revealing how population density skews heavily toward southern urban centers while vast northern and rural areas remain sparsely inhabited; the map uses a textured off-white background and clearly labeled color-coded population figures to emphasize demographic concentration rather than land area, with the source cited as the National Statistical Agency, 2015, and the logo of “The World in Maps” displayed in the lower right corner.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 05:03:26 JST Information Is Beautiful
- Our World in Data
What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
by @ourworldindata
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1. This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from vs the causes the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 (left) with New York Times media coverage of those causes in 2023 (right). The left stacked bar shows heart disease as the leading cause at 29%, followed by cancer (27%), accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and smaller shares for kidney failure, liver disease, suicide, COVID-19, influenza/pneumonia, drug overdose, homicide (<1%), and terrorism (<0.001%). The right stacked bar shows NYT coverage percentages normalized to 100% across selected causes: homicide dominates at 42%, followed by terrorism (18%), drug overdose (7.5%), COVID-19 (5.3%), suicide (3.8%), accidents (9.7%), cancer (4.1%), and heart disease (2.8%). The stark mismatch highlights how media coverage overrepresents rare violent causes while underrepresenting leading natural causes of death. Data sources listed are Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index; the graphic includes a “Swipe →” prompt suggesting it is part of a carousel.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 20:24:05 JST Information Is Beautiful

This feels true...
by Instagram user @beckybarnicomics
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFXYUJatjBV
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  Becky Barnicoat on Instagram: "A very accurate diagram for @graziauk"
  
  231K likes, 746 comments - beckybarnicomics on January 28, 2025: "A very accurate diagram for @graziauk".
2. A humorous illustration titled "How Time Works" by Becky Barnicoat. The image depicts time as a roller coaster track with months labeled along the curve. The "You" is positioned at the start of the ride, near the bottom of the first steep drop, representing the experience of time speeding up as the year progresses.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 06:24:21 JST Information Is Beautiful

The age you peak
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1. Folded timeline graphic shows the typical peaks ages for certain skills and life achievements. Learning a new language (aged 7), muscle strength (25), bone mass (30), and winning a novel prize! (aged 40)
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 03:39:52 JST Information Is Beautiful

Most offensive types of pillow cases
via https://www.threads.com/@beckybarnicomics/post/DIrmRgVo0I4
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  Becky Barnicoat (@beckybarnicomics) on Threads
  
  Shopping for pillow cases, felt compelled to repost 😒
2. An illustrated chart titled "Most Offensive Types of Pillow Case" features four rectangular panels on a mustard yellow background. The top left panel shows a white pillowcase with wide, ruffled edges, labeled "POINTLESS FLAPPY EDGES THAT GET IN THE WAY." The top right panel depicts a light blue pillowcase with a visible zipper closure, labeled "ZIP CLOSURE THAT RATTLES IN THE NIGHT." The bottom left panel shows a peach-colored pillowcase with a lace pattern on one end, labeled "UNPLEASANTLY ROUGH LACE WHERE YOUR FACE GOES." The bottom right panel displays a cream-colored pillowcase that is clearly too small for the fluffy pillow inside it, labeled "TOO SMALL FOR PILLOW." The artist's name, "BECKY BARNI COAT," is written at the bottom right.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 00:56:38 JST Information Is Beautiful

South America is BIG
by @amazingmap
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1. A striking map of the world where countries are reimagined and seamlessly integrated into the continent of South America. Major nations like the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom are incorporated into the existing landmass, creating a unique and thought-provoking vision of global geography.
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