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The stupidest chart you’ll see today – The Economist

Calculating reciprocal tariffs is hard. It takes years of determined study to get a PhD in trade economics. And you need teams of these types of wonks to come up with policies that will work. Scratch that. All that’s needed is an idiot, an AI chatbot, or some combination of the two. It took no more than a couple of hours after President Donald Trump announced the United States’ new reciprocal tariff rates for the commentariat to work out how exactly they had been arrived at.

data, data visualisation, Donald Trump, economics, politics

03/04/2025
Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path around our planet, but to experience that journey first-hand, we have to enter the cosmos itself.

data visualisation, design, moon, science, space

11/03/2025
Visualizing the daily scroll of the average social media user – Visual Capitalist

On social media, users casually scroll through an estimated 300 feet of newsfeed daily—about the same height as the Statue of Liberty. According to the paper, around 5 billion people worldwide use social media, and the average social media user now spends about two and a half hours a day online.

data, data visualisation, social media

03/02/2025
The Pudding Cup: The best visual and data-driven stories of 2024 – The Pudding

Battle of the Chocolate Bars: You may have heard that food is better in Europe, compared to the US. This is especially the case for chocolate. We really liked how this project broke down the differences between European and American chocolate standards, annotating ingredient lists and incorporating chocolate imagery into all of the charts. Moreover, readability wasn’t lost when chocolate was used in the graphics, which often happens when deviating from typical chart shapes.

data, data visualisation, design

27/01/2025