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infobeautiful, 16 days ago to random

Google's auto-complete - an incidental feature but always hilariously revealing about the deep concerns of the group mind. Here's the same search done in 2010 vs 2024. Some interesting differences

This diagram lists the most common phrases the Google search engine offered in 2010 and 2024 to complete searches for the sentences “How do I get my girlfriend to …” and “How do I get my boyfriend to…”. In both years the most used auto-complete offer is “...love me again”. while the other terms presented range from “propose” or “kiss me” to “leave my house”. 2024 also shows reflects the Zeitgeist by offering the term “stop vaping”.

infobeautiful, 16 days ago to random

Truthpaste

infobeautiful, 19 days ago to random

Kinda cool. An #interactive map that helps you locate "dark hotels" - places as far away from artificial light as possible.

https://darkhotels.co/

infobeautiful, 25 days ago to random

Evolution of the Alphabet
(by https://usefulcharts.com/)

infobeautiful, 29 days ago to Infographics

Come learn the @infobeautiful ‘concept-driven’ approach to #datavisualisation & #infographics for max impact.

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infobeautiful, 1 month ago to Dog

What's the best #dog breed, according to the data? The #dataviz dog-lovers have been waiting for: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/best-in-show-whats-the-top-data-dog/

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

Curve fitting methods by @xkcd

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

Love it as a Teen, Love it Forever
(https://nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html )

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

A spotlight onto the world of insects and their flight patterns. (Photo Viz by Xavi Bou)

This long-exposure photograph turns the flight pattern, path and movement of an insect into and aesthetic and colourful shape.
This long-exposure photograph turns the flight pattern, path and movement of an insect into and aesthetic and colourful shape.
This long-exposure photograph turns the flight pattern, path and movement of an insect into and aesthetic and colourful shape.

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

Did you know there are 7 main types of plastic? Some (1,2,4) are recyclable ♻️ None of biodegradable :(

Part of a larger infographic looking at the plastic crisis https://geni.us/IIBplastics

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

Realtime - quite interesting "news in data stories" site, tracking key numbers across public opinion, environment and er, chess. Then using AI to distill trends into bite-sized stories. Mostly US data.

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to datascience

Now this is #datascience. Which is the best Mario Kart Deluxe kart combo out of 703,560 possible customisations?

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto

infobeautiful, 1 month ago to random

World's favourite cuisines. 25,000 people in 24 countries were asked which nation's food they preferred. Interesting results.
(via @yougov)

infobeautiful, 2 months ago to random

Just a plot of all objects in the universe...