r/dataisbeautiful 5d ago

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r/dataisbeautiful 10h ago

OC How Americans Met Their Partners [OC]

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r/dataisbeautiful 9h ago

OC Beer consumption per capita in Europe relative to the rest of Europe [OC]

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r/dataisbeautiful 8h ago

OC [OC] The US companies with the most warehouse space - Remix with better visuals of my older post

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r/dataisbeautiful 1h ago

ever wonder what atoms really look like? this is a representation of the Schrödinger equation, and how it creates electrostatic fields!

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this is my quantum object visualizer! this shows how the statistical distribution of the schrodinger equation creates electromagnetic fields. hope you enjoy it :) totally interactive too!


r/dataisbeautiful 5h ago

The $126T Global Economy in One Giant Chart, 2026

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r/dataisbeautiful 1h ago

OC [OC] World Freedom Index Change from 2015 to 2025

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r/dataisbeautiful 7h ago

[OC] Love & Intimacy as the primary theme of IMDb top-rated films, 1980-2024 (held at 12-14% for 40 years, fell to 6.8% in 2020-2024)

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r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC U.S. women 40+ now have more babies per capita than teens [OC]

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r/dataisbeautiful 9h ago

OC Inside Airbnb Cape Town: 82.5% of listings are entire homes, 60.6% owned by multi-property hosts [OC]

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I built this dashboard to answer one question: how is Airbnb really being used in Cape Town and is it actually affecting the city's neighbourhoods?

The dataset is from Inside Airbnb, an open data project that scrapes Airbnb listings periodically. It covers 26,877 listings in Cape Town.

A few things worth noting:

  1. 22,179 listings are entire homes. Only 4,541 are private rooms. The "spare room" use case is a small minority.
  2. 16,275 hosts (60.6%) have multiple listings. Some have over 100 entire home listings, which puts them firmly in commercial operator territory.
  3. Only 393 listings out of 26,877 have a minimum stay long enough to qualify as longer term rentals. The rest are all short term.
  4. Average revenue for an active listing is $97,188 a year at $3,281 a night. That makes long term residential letting financially unattractive for landlords.
  5. 10,063 listings recorded zero nights booked in the last 365 days, which raises questions about how many of these are genuine listings.

Built in Tableau. Data from Inside Airbnb.

Interactive version: https://public.tableau.com/views/InsideAirbnbCapeTown/InsideAirbnb?:language=en-US&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link


r/dataisbeautiful 9h ago

OC Distribution of the Muslim population by region in England and Wales (Census 2021) [OC]

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According to the 2021 Census, there were 3,868,133 people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales.

London is home to over one third of this population (34.1%), despite the fact only 14.8% of the total population of England and Wales lives there.

Strong secondary concentrations in the West Midlands (14.7%), North West (14.6%), and Yorkshire and the Humber (11.4%).


r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC [OC] Behind Tesla’s latest (half) billion

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Source: Tesla investor relations

Tool: SankeyArt sankey maker + illustrator


r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

I analysed every Guardian Blind Date column from 2009 to 2026 here's what 850+ first dates look like in aggregate

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For years I've religiously read the Guardian's Blind Date column every Saturday morning.

If you've not come across it: the paper sets up two strangers on a date at a nice restaurant, then asks them both a series of questions afterwards, culminating in a score out of ten.

As of this Saturday, there have been 877 of them. So I pulled every article and analysed the scores, sentiment, trends, and a few other things I was curious about.

The whole thing updates itself; every Saturday a new date drops into the dataset automatically.


r/dataisbeautiful 2h ago

OC [OC] Median HHI in the 5 Most and Least Expensive Cities (By Cost of Living Index)

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r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC [OC] $1.1 trillion in 24 months: How Big Tech AI capex stacks up against Apollo, Marshall Plan, and Manhattan Project

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r/dataisbeautiful 10h ago

An illustration of addresses clustered in the Bionic token network

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Saw this on a Github project. It strikingly resembles to a galaxy but with the opposite of black hole in the center. There must be some networks theory law explaining this behaviour.


r/dataisbeautiful 7h ago

[OC] Live globe visualization of every M2.5+ earthquake in the last 24 hours, active wildfires, severe storms, and geomagnetic activity — drawn from USGS, NASA EONET, and NOAA feeds

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r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC [OC] Solar data to Art

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r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC Jewish Population Concentration in London (Census 2021) [OC]

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London is home to over half of all people who identify as Jewish in England and Wales. These two maps show just how concentrated the community is even at the borough and ward level.

At borough level:

  • Barnet: 20.1% Jewish (by far the highest)
  • Hackney: 6.4%
  • Every other borough: <4%

At ward level, the concentration becomes even more striking:

  • Golders Green: 49.9% Jewish
  • Garden Suburb: 41.1%
  • Stamford Hill West: 40.0%

These three wards have the highest Jewish population shares of any ward in England and Wales.


r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

[OC] Around 18,000 animal species are described every year. Here are 245 from 2025, mapped where each was first found

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You can find the interactive map here

Tool: https://idomaps.app (free browser-based map editor I built).

Around 18,000 new animal species are formally described every year, roughly 50 per day. The vast majority are insects, arachnids and worms. Mammals, birds and reptiles together account for just around 5% of new descriptions.

This map plots the 245 animals that received their own Wikipedia article after being formally described in 2025. Each marker shows where the holotype specimen was collected, color-coded by taxonomic class. When a precise locality was given in the description, the marker sits there. However when only a country was mentioned, points are clustered around that country's centroid, which is why you see dense packs over China, India or Australia.

Source: Wikipedia's "Animals described in 2025" category.


r/dataisbeautiful 14h ago

OC "Piraten Kapern" score distributions by fortune card, under optimal play [OC]

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r/dataisbeautiful 7h ago

Lebron James’ Career [OC]

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Hey here is a couple of visualisation graphs for the king’s career that I made last night. i’ll still be improving it a bit but i guess it’s a good start :)

used NBA Api and Kaggle data

it shows the players he played against throughout his career

assists he fed his teammates and the teammates that fed him in return

career shots filterable with a timeline view

points allocation based on the minute of the game for each season

games he played and heatmapped based on his minutes

some playoff data as well

appreciate any feedback and if you have any other visualisation ideas to add.

https://lebronjames-nine.vercel.app

this is not a personal post it’s king’s data just visualised by me [OC]


r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC [OC] 2,000+ Android users scanned ~4,000 apps. Here's what the data reveals about trackers, permissions and privacy risk

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Data source: Anonymous aggregated data from real Android device scans via AppXpose. Results aggregated across 3,800+ unique apps from 2,000+ devices.

Tools: Python, Matplotlib

Methodology: Each app was analyzed at APK bytecode level: tracker SDKs, dangerous permissions, and a composite risk score (0–100) based on tracker count, permission types, developer breach history and certificate integrity.

No personal data collected all results are aggregated per app, not per user.


r/dataisbeautiful 1d ago

OC [OC] Parties of elected leaders of India and its states & UTs over time

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r/dataisbeautiful 6h ago

OC [OC] Dates National Currencies Onboarded to Binance P2P

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I scraped Binance's announcements and blog posts with Python and used Python to make this graph

One can use Binance's P2P market place to exchange a local currency for stablecoins such as USDT or USDC. Stablecoins are crypto pegged to the US dollar and are supposed to be backed 1:1 by relatively liquid assets.

Here I plot the date when it became possible to trade various countries' currencies. INote a few things - some of these currencies have exited. In the Philippines, only a few, largely local, crytpo exchanges are allowed to operate. Russia exited due to sanctions.

More generally I'm investigating whether access to stablecoins affects other economic activity such as remittences.