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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
In conversation about 5 months ago from vis.social permalink
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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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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 01:27:05 JST Information Is Beautiful

Consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). WTF UK?
(via @Guardian)
In conversation about 5 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A map of Europe showing the percentage of ultra-processed foods in the diets of different countries. The colors represent different ranges: Blue: Under 25%, Yellow: Over 25%, Orange: Over 50%. The map highlights countries with high consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as the UK, Ireland, and Belgium, and those with lower consumption, such as Portugal and Greece.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 03:03:03 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 6 months 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 Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 03:05:51 JST Information Is Beautiful

Our pick of positive trends and unique global achievements from 2025 🎆 🎆 Starting the year on an optimistic note! 🤩
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-beautiful-news-of-the-year/
In conversation about 6 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. ALT tag: "Infographic titled 'Most Beautiful News of the Year 2025,' showcasing positive global developments. Highlights include over 2 billion polio vaccine doses distributed, basic income for Irish artists, record low homicide rates in the USA, peak pollution surpassed, and a decline in the fur industry. Other news features successful Huntington’s disease treatment, reduction in cervical cancer from HPV vaccines, worldwide growth in electric car sales, the healing ozone hole, humpback whale population recovery, the approval of a 100% effective HIV prevention drug, renewable energy surpassing coal, increased life expectancy in Africa, and a decrease in child labor by 100 million children. Credit: David McCandless, Information is Beautiful."
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  Most Beautiful News of the Year — Information is Beautiful
  
  from @infobeautiful
  
  Our pick of positive trends and unique global achievements of the year. Starting each year on an optimistic note! More at @beautifulnews.daily
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 09:03:53 JST Information Is Beautiful

Very bad? Terrible? Or perfect? American superlatives graded. Making American 8.8 again?
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1
In conversation about 6 months ago from vis.social permalink
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  How good is “good”? | YouGov
  
  A new YouGov study looks at exactly how positive and negative various descriptions are seen as being
2. Chart showing positivity ratings for various words and phrases on a scale from 0 to 10. Words range from "Very bad" (2.22) to "Perfect" (8.75), with color-coded distributions from red (negative) to green (positive). The title references "Make America 8.08 out of 10 again," with "Great" scoring 8.08.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 16:11:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

A true world divide
In conversation about 6 months 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 Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 01:34:12 JST Information Is Beautiful

For reference...
In conversation about 6 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Map highlighting control over the North Pole, divided into regions: Russia, Norway, Greenland (Denmark), Canada, U.S. (Alaska), and international waters.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 00:56:47 JST Information Is Beautiful

Deep truth
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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 Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 01:11:47 JST Information Is Beautiful

2050: Where one in four people might be retirement age (double today)
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1. A line graph showing the projected number of people aged 65 years and older worldwide from 2024 to 2054. The graph shows that the global population of people aged 65 and older is expected to increase from 830 million in 2024 to 1.7 billion in 2054. The graph also shows the projected number of people aged 65 and older in Asia, Europe, and Africa. The data is based on the UN's medium scenario.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jan-2026 22:49:36 JST Information Is Beautiful

Some good UK deals on our beautiful books out there
📘 63% off Beautiful News- just £9! https://geni.us/BNEWS
📕 20% off Information is Beautiful https://geni.us/IIBbook
📙 25% off Knowledge is Beautiful https://geni.us/KIB25
Info https://bit.ly/IIB-Books
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  Amazon | Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions | McCandless, David | Communication & Media Studies
  
  Amazon配送商品ならBeautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutionsが通常配送無料。更にAmazonならポイント還元本が多数。McCandless, David作品ほか、お急ぎ便対象商品は当日お届けも可能。
2. The cover images of three infographic books by David McCandless: Beautiful News, Knowledge is Beautiful and Information is Beautiful
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  Books — Information is Beautiful
  
  from @infobeautiful
  
  Learn more about our data visualization and infographic books, including the Harper Collins international bestseller Information is Beautiful
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 12:16:36 JST Information Is Beautiful

% of world population with colour-blindness:
Deuteranomaly (green-weak) 4.6%
Deuteranopia (green-blind) 1.3%
Protoanomaly (red-weak) 1%
Protanopia (red-blind) 1%
Tritanopia (blue-blind) ~rare
This condition affects 1 in 12 men, 1 in 200 women, so more than 350m worldwide. 1 in 22 people.
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1. Four images of tomatoes showing how different types of color blindness affect vision: normal, deuteranomaly, protanopia, and tritanopia. Each image displays varied tomato colors and sizes.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 02:07:48 JST Information Is Beautiful

Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good
US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1
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1. A stacked area chart shows gradations of British superlatives from Abysmal (1.21) through terrible (1.75) and rubbish (2.17) to average (5.09), fine (5.8), and topping out at "very good" (7.9) and excellent (8.95)
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  How good is “good”? | YouGov
  
  A new YouGov study looks at exactly how positive and negative various descriptions are seen as being
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 01:39:12 JST Information Is Beautiful

Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection
https://brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-true-size/
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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
2. 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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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 01:42:56 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 Friday, 02-Jan-2026 07:25:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

Ikigai - that interesting self-development concept & prism from Japan - and it's (more realistic?) opposite (by @adamgrant)
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1. An Ikigai diagram showing overlapping circles in pink, yellow, blue, and purple on a dark background. The circles represent 'what you are good at', 'what earns you money', 'what the world needs', and 'what you love'. Where they intersect are concepts like 'profession', 'mission', 'calling', with 'ikigai' (purpose/dream job) at the center where all circles meet. Created by Information is Beautiful, original diagram by Mark Winn/Dan Buettner.
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2. A humorous empty Venn diagram titled 'Venn Diagram of my life' showing three disconnected circles labeled 'Things I like to do', 'Things I'm good at', and 'Things that make money', with no overlapping sections, implying these aspects of life don't intersect. By @adamgrant
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 03:43:54 JST Information Is Beautiful

Statistically, which is the best Mario Kart Deluxe kart combo out of all 703,560 possible customisations? Now this is data science!
(&TLDR Peach, Teddy Buggy, Roller Tires, Cloud Glider :)
https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
In conversation about 7 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A 3D scatterplot examines 703,560 possible combinations of kart customisations Mario Kart Deluxe, evaluating speed, acceleration, weight, handling and other attributes. The conclusion is Peach as a driver of the Teddy Buggy with roller tires and the cloud glider.
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  Mario meets Pareto
  
  from @AntoineMyrwtz
  
  Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:48:17 JST Information Is Beautiful

Now this is an information graphic!
(by Peter Arkle https://peterarkle.com/)
In conversation about 7 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A series of illustrations shows how to eat and behave according to sushi etiquette. Listed are Do's like eating with chop sticks or fingers. Both is fine. Also listed are don'ts like handing money directly to the sushi chef, which is deemed unhygienic.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Dec-2025 07:16:01 JST Information Is Beautiful

Most Beautiful News of 2024. Our picks of positive trends & amazing achievements 🤩
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1. An infographic titled 'Most Beautiful News of the Year 2024' displaying positive news in colored blocks: environmental wins (Taiwan's wildlife protection, Norway's forest growth), sustainable energy achievements in EU, medical breakthroughs (HPV vaccine success, HIV cure), crime reduction in USA, and environmental initiatives. Created by InformationIsBeautiful.
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2. Continuation of positive news infographic showing four major achievements: 47% increase in global bumblebee population, Amazon deforestation at 9-year low, increasing whale populations, and declining breast cancer deaths (518,000 lives saved over 35 years). Box sizes represent significance. Source notation indicates 'size = awesomeness // sources: news reports'.
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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 7 months 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 7 months 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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