Dataviz of the Month – Jun / July 2024

Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web.

CREATED BY US

» How might the USA reach carbon net zero by 2050? Well, for a start: ☀️ it’s ripe for solar power.
» What really increases average life expectancy? We let the science decide.
» As the plastics crisis grinds on, here are some vital plast-istics.
» How do I get my boyfriend/girlfriend to ____? Google’s auto-complete feature reveals the answer.

CREATED BY OTHERS

» Be glad you live now, and not in 1632, when many people simply died from… guess what? (unknown creator)
» The 4,000 year evolution of the alphabet in one very cool graphic. (Useful Charts)
» The cleanest & safest sources of energy (Visual Capitalist)
» The World as 100 People: 17 can’t read and write. 13 have no access to clean water. (Jack Hagley)
» Who was around in 1493? A fascinating look at who (e.g. Michelangelo ) was a contemporary of whom (e.g. Copernicus) (Jan Willem Tulp)

OUR LATEST DATASETS

» The data supporting all our Plastics infographics
» The key numbers two+ years into the Russia-Ukraine War
» UPDATED: now over 450 entries in our long running viz of the world’s worst data breaches

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