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Data is beautiful—and I’m in love. I swear it’s not just because of its gorgeous pie charts, voluptuous curves, and stunning axes... Promise! When it comes to showing off just how stunningly data can be presented, there’s no better to place to feast your eyes than the ‘Data is Beautiful’ subreddit that hosts a massive community of over 15.6 million people and which celebrated its 9th birthday in February.

The community is full of math, statistics, and art lovers, as well as professionals who use data every day. Often, they get so inspired by the eye-pleasing charts and graphs, they create their own and end up on the front page of Reddit.

We’ve collected some of the most aesthetic expressions of data found on r/DataIsBeautiful for you to enjoy, so scroll on down and have a peek, dear Pandas. As you dive deep into the world of stats, upvote the images that you liked the most. Remember, the charts love it when the numbers go up. (Pssst, the subreddit even has its own Twitter page and Discord server.)

I had a lovely chat with some of the moderators running the ‘Data is Beautiful’ community, including redditors NotABotStill and PHealthy. So be sure to read on for the in-depth insights they shared with Bored Panda about the ins and outs of how the small team of professionals manages the massive community of content creators. They’re a very friendly bunch, so you shouldn’t hesitate to join the community if you’re into charts, graphs, maps, or, well… simply love looking at pretty pictures.

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A Year Ago I Was Hospitalized For A Failed Suicide Attempt, I Decided Then, That I Wanted To Be Healthier And Happier; This Is What A Year Of Therapy And Proper Medication Can Do. Don’t Give Up

A Year Ago I Was Hospitalized For A Failed Suicide Attempt, I Decided Then, That I Wanted To Be Healthier And Happier; This Is What A Year Of Therapy And Proper Medication Can Do. Don’t Give Up

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Despite having millions and millions of members, the subreddit still maintains some of the core tenets that they had when it was still founded. The moderator team is purposefully left as a small group of professionals who focus on data visualization as some part of their careers and lives. That passion for data translates into passion for the r/DataIsBeautiful community.

What’s more, the subreddit treats its original content creators as “first-class citizens,” constantly engaging them, and making sure they’re credited and acknowledged for their work (as all creators should be!). 

“We bring a data-centric view of the world to millions of people every day—from important information about the COVID-19 pandemic all the way to a random dude's daily bowel movements—and our community prides itself in that fact. For example, we had community members posting analyses and projections of COVID-19 trends back in January and February 2020—well before anyone in the U.S. was taking the pandemic seriously. /r/DataIsBeautiful is THE place to go when you want to see the signal through the noise of hectic daily life,” one of the moderators explained why the community is so loved and popular.

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People Killed In Terrorist Attacks In 2017: Europe (Blue) vs. Africa (Red)

People Killed In Terrorist Attacks In 2017: Europe (Blue) vs. Africa (Red)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

6 people dead in the USA = World news.... 200+ school children kidnapped from a school every other week in nigeria and it's hardly a blip in the news. I wonder if people know that there have been 4 mass kidnapping in nigeria this year alone... at one school, they took 317 girls

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I Finished My Year Long Temperature Blanket!

I Finished My Year Long Temperature Blanket!

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The amount of posts and comments that the mods of r/DataIsBeautiful have to deal with is absolutely staggering. I’m not exaggerating when I say that my jaw dropped when I heard about it. The subreddit gets roughly 400-500 submissions each week and has had 2,370 approvals, removals, and spam posts over the last month alone.

Meanwhile, the number of comments they get is beyond counting, but the mods estimate that the number ranges in the tens of thousands and might even be as high as over a hundred thousand.

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President Trump False Or Misleading Claims While In Office

President Trump False Or Misleading Claims While In Office

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Us Elevation Tiles

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Colorado represent! I grew up there. It wasn't until I moved away that I realized people elsewhere don't usually know what elevation they're living at.

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Redditor NotABotStill has been a moderator at r/DataIsBeautiful for two years and revealed to Bored Panda that the mod team is global, with members living in the EU, US, and APAC, so that they can cover all the time zones.

The level of professionalism that they have is pleasantly surprising. However, that makes sense once you realize that they’re actually all professionals in their personal lives and are a very close-knit group who regularly communicate. You can expect this level of dedication from people running a successful company.

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“We certainly refine the rules over time. For example, we no longer allow YouTube videos as it was being abused by content creators looking for subs on their channel. We also occasionally temporarily prohibit specific subjects, like Tinder or dating posts, when a topic overwhelms the subreddit although dating posts are allowed again,” moderator NotABotStill explained.

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I Ran A Quick Poll Last Week On Digital Transformation

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“We also only allow personal posts (posts about the poster such as miles jogged over a year as an example) on Mondays which I believe we instituted during my tenure. That's just a flavor of the types of rules we add, adjust, or remove over time. Rule changes are done by consensus of the mods and we will often spend days or weeks deciding on new rules and how to word them,” they said that they’re always moving towards perfection, with a lot of time spent on making the subreddit better and better.

The moderators manually approve or remove each and every post, but they mostly rely on their fellow redditors to report posts and comments that violate their rules of conduct. They also use AutoMod to help move the process along. Posts that go against the rules end up being automatically removed, so the mods can spend more time on important issues rather than chores.

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Searches For International Men's Day Peak Every International Women's Day

Searches For International Men's Day Peak Every International Women's Day

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Trump Voters Are Less Likely To Have A College Degree

Trump Voters Are Less Likely To Have A College Degree

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the correlation is more about greater exposure to more progressive thought, diversity, and macro / global worldview through the experience of attending colleges and universities that result in graduates tending to lean towards progressive and liberal political views. Intelligence has nothing to do with education, but education has everything to do with combating ignorance and myopic thinking.

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Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I eant to point out: LESS likely does not mean "stupid", just "less educated" and less *likely*. Not "you are stupid" or "you are smart".

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Katelyn Kordon
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obligatory "I didn't vote for Trump in either election, but I'm a centrist so I'm going to address your post" Is this a comment about class? Are we implying that having a college degree is a measure of intelligence or worth? Perhaps we should establish that

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't say that, personally. I know plenty of people who are smart without having gone through higher education, and also people with a college degree who lack critical thinking skills. It's often more a question of personal priorities. One example: mining is simply on its way out, which is bad news for miners. Republicans promised to help them, so that's who they vote for. Doesn't mean they're stupid, just that they're scared. Another example: Crippling student debt is a big deal for many with a college degree, Democrats promised to help them, so that's who they vote for. Doesn't mean they're smart, just scared. There are of course many, many, many more factors.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having a degree doesn't make you smart. Just as not having one doesn't make you stupid.

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Kim McSwain
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aren't Trump supporters accused of being rich? If all of the educated people are on the other side wouldn't that make that premise inaccurate? Are we being elitist and dismissive of the working class? What does that say about minority voters?

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Watching
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The republican party has two categories. The 1% of millionaires and billionaires and 99% of trailer park trash.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, this is just further dividing the rift in society. As long as you're fooled by a "us vs them" narative" only a few at the top will profit...

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the rational one
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a bit misleading because I bet that a lot of people voted AGAINST Trump, and not FOR Biden. If you really think that Biden is a good choice, you are the same as the Trumpists. The whole system is rotten.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes sense. His platform appealed to the working class, while Biden's alienated them. Not exactly surprising.

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Brian Gross
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

trump works for e=rich people and only his voters while, biden works for everyone like hes passing things left in right that will help the working class while all trump did was lie to us

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True, however the same is true about Obama vs. McCain, but if it was posted it'd be racist to assume the correlation.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I honestly believe that Donald is using Twitter because he is not able to write a decent text or hold a decent conversation for more than 1 minute. I do not even need to watch CNN or Fox to know that he is everything I do not believe in. Simply by looking at his behaviour how he treats people who does not share his opinion.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just shows that non college people haven't had the opportunity of good college indoctrination. We tend to think for ourselves. Thats all this trend shows me.

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One of the main purposes of universities is to teach critical thinking and to support claims with evidence and facts, instead of 'common sense' and feelings. But then I'm in STEM, not the soft sciences, where feelings are valid and you don't have to be objective.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure what you're interpreting that -100 to mean, but in the chart it's just a measure of how strongly they support their preferred candidate.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poorer less educated people make up the majority of most countries, and this case most were mislead by Trumps into believing their countries problems were everybody else's fault and that he would fix those problems making things better for them. He also used catchy chants and straight talk with the knowledge that it would get their vote because other politicians like to make themselves look smarter by using polysyllabic words which distances them from the average person who either doesn't understand them or feels like they're being condescending to them.

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Amy Sadler
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

these voter graphs are lies....its meant to make trump voters feel stupid...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

College degree isn't necessarily indicative of intelligence. People with degrees are more likely to live in cities, and people in cities are more likely to have degrees. And no, I didn't vote for Trump. But correlation doesn't mean much here.

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Yvonne Riggs
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bernie Sanders wants to make college free. Will that fix them?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This actually makes a lot of sense. Most people equate education with intelligence, however that's not actually the case, getting a degree doesn't make you more intelligent. So the idea that many people get when they see this graph (that people with higher intelligence vote for Biden) is really not proven with this graph. What I believe is happening is that most colleges are very liberal, being influenced by the Sorbonne and Frankfurt school of thought. The Democratic party's current agenda follows closely these Leftist teachings taught in these schools. Therefore the educational system is creating more people with those political leanings and therefore changing the political fabric of society. Or simply put propagated bias.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously your level of education doesn't give you any common sense!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My eyes hurt from those colours... I feel like the purple is switching into red. Ciclam is not a colour? I think.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think this is about being smart or not. But it does seem to make sense in the sense that Trump relies on a lot of claims that are just not true about the rest of the world. The less you know about the rest of the world, the easier it is to believe his claims.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Proof that the better you are educated, the more likely you are to see trump as the $#@#$$ that he is

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And.... That means what? I have a college degree and I voted for trump. I know people with PhD who voted for trump. It has nothing to do with being educated. Its that most colleges are liberal/leftist indoctrination institutions

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It means that people with college degrees were more likely to vote for Biden not that they exclusively voted for Biden. If you were half as intelligent as you like to think you are you would've been able to figure that out.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly in the US having a college education does not make you smart. It can make you brainwashed by the liberal professors, reliant on mommy & daddy for lots longer because you can’t find a job. Education does not equal common sense.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can only lie to the uneducated, and Trump did everything to keep people down education-wise.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is very convenient. I wouldn't mind seeing some type of reliable source. People like to throw this kind of stuff around for a laugh, but facts are not always as comfortable as we want.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is Ivan bolitekurac being so downvoted? It’s a fair and thought-provoking question. I’m not sure what the answer is but I would assume education and wealth aren’t necessarily closely correlated in the US. What is with all the defensiveness over such an innocent question though?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for your comment,i said it was interesting and asked a question.I see many posts on bp how expensive college is in the USA.Now i ask a question without attacking anyone and my comment gets all the hate.I don't care about likes but people get mad over every genuine question

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Honey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHO CARES? #Rude I don't have a college degree but I still know a dumb f*ck when I see one!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blue dots: Number of people drowning in college debt who suddenly become socialists

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable. Democratic policies like unfettered immigration, excessive regulation, and imbalanced trade deals hurt the working class. Meanwhile, with all that out-sourcing and cheap labor, Jeff Bezos just gets richer

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

0%????? What county could exist without college-educated people??

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well yeah . People who like to learn are more likely to do research and heed things like historical trends and science and get their news from a source other than fox and twitter

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better education for everyone is how democrats can secure future voters.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was similar trend in 2020's presidential election in Poland. The lower was the level of education, the higher percent of people voting for Duda (a puppet president controlled by Kaczyński, the Polish equivalent of Trump).

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably because they're less likely to have a brain if they vote for that muppet

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SO let's see. The rich vote Republican according to Democrats. Oppressed minorities with no chances of education all vote Democrat according to Democrats. Yet, college educated vote for Democrats. I can conclude that according to Democrats, if I want to be rich and successful I don't need to go to college!!!! Isn't it funny how the Dems lie, the media promotes it and you folk believe it?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people with university degrees aren't rich. It's not like zero people with degrees voted for trump. When we're talking about the rich, we're talking about 0.1% of the population. That could disappear in this chart.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, seems this graph points exactly towards left leaning bias in higher education. Shocking. Also, richer people tended to vote for Biden. Incredible stuff here, just fabulous.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your undergraduate degree was in Psychology, Communication, Sociology, Visual or Performing Arts, Women's Studies or Foreign Literature, you are so absurdly privileged that opening your mouth about socioeconomic issues is like a jock talking about what women should wear. This doesn't mean you're a bad person, just a clueless one whose opinion doesn't matter one one-thousandth as much as you think it does. Also, if you haven't taken Calculus and Statistics, don't pretend your advanced degree represents anything other than a high degree of indoctrination into groupthink. And whatever social science you think you studied wasn't a science anymore than a theology course at a baptist college.

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This makes sense since college no longer educates but rather indoctrinates

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Having a degree in Medieval Poetry somehow makes you "smart" or knowledgeable in other areas such as politics, economics, or constitutional law?

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This doesn't really mean anything. Again this is an American falsehood about what makes someone a good person. I know cleaners with degrees, and professionals without. A degree just means you studied a subject of your choosing to a higher than average level on paper. A degree does not affect your personal opinions, thoughts or feelings about things. I have a doctorate, that does not mean my political opinions are more right than yours.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what trump was trying to do was not a political "opinion", it was trying to rid human beings of human rights. if he was re-elected this year, LGBTQ rights would go down the drain, our relationships with many other countries would be nothing short of strained, and america would be DEAD. second term trump would have been much worse than first term trump because he would realize that the majority still supports his stupid lies.

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I’d love to see the actual data they used for this, I can make a chart about something too, but last time I checked voter registration doesn’t include asking about education level

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Yea totally considering Biden voters were dead doubles felonies you know illigle ones.... yay down votes! Libtards!

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So does that also mean that trump voters most likely built your house.

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Interesting,does that mean that rich people voted more for Biden while the poor voted more for Trump?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nope. higher education never meant automatically higher wage. Sad, right?

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“Most posts are visible immediately, however, we also utilize AutoMod to ‘filter’ out posts that likely violate a rule. Speaking of AutoMod, we heavily rely on it to filter, or make invisible, both posts and comments based on keywords, user karma, and URL links (to name a few) which then have to be manually approved before they are visible. We also utilize it to automatically remove posts that violate our rules (e.g., YouTube links or directly linking an image and not claiming [OC]) so we mods don't even have to see them.”

NotABotStill pointed out to us that popular posts on the subreddit “are often approved multiple times” because they’re reported while some posters end up reposting the images because the AutoMod catches the [OC] error. That means that the number of original monthly posts is probably closer to 1,500 to 2,000, once you do away with the reposts and multiple approvals.

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Paths Of 800 Unmanned Bicycles Being Pushed Until They Fall Over

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Selected Leaders During The Queens Reign (Up To Now)

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Moderator NotABotStill explained that they rely on the users to upvote and downvote submissions and don’t make subjective evaluations about how each one is or isn’t aesthetic. In other words, what the community thinks is incredibly important.

When asked, the mod said that they wouldn’t be able to choose between which they like more, pie charts or bar graphs, and would prefer “a simple Excel line chart any day over those two.” (Personally, I know I should prefer bar graphs, but my heart belongs to pie charts.)

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My Experience Of Trying To Find A Job As A Pilot In The Last Four Months

My Experience Of Trying To Find A Job As A Pilot In The Last Four Months

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Area Of Land Burnt In Australia And Area Of Smoke Coverage Shown As Equivalent Area Over Europe

Area Of Land Burnt In Australia And Area Of Smoke Coverage Shown As Equivalent Area Over Europe

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Meanwhile, moderator PHealthy highlighted that the subreddit has had “fairly linear growth” since being founded in 2012. The growth started to slow down in 2017 and 2018, however, the sub is still adding thousands of new members each day. “That said, with the way Reddit works the subscriber count isn't all that important above a certain point which is enough to it r/all and/or the front page. That hits on a topic most of the more serious subreddits face: good content vs popular content.”

PHealthy said that moderating the community is a team effort. However, some mods go “above and beyond and really keep the community moving” where the automated mod tools end up not being enough. “I moderate a few other large communities so I split a lot of my time and try to help with the modqueue as much as I can but really only go after the real egregious offenses like hate speech, racism, personal attacks, etc.”

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Two Thousand Years Of Global Temperatures In Twenty Seconds

Two Thousand Years Of Global Temperatures In Twenty Seconds

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Average Flag Colour By Latitude

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The moderator added that the number of submissions can vary depending on what’s happening around the globe at the time. “COVID for instance gets a big spike as well as popular post copycats.”

In PHealthy’s opinion, animated graphs are rarely better than something like a grouped bar graph, even though they certainly draw the eye. “Pies and bars certainly both have their uses but we've all seen the results of tortured dataviz and I think that's where something like the pie chart gets a bad rap.”

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Passenger Fatalities Per Billion Passenger Miles

Passenger Fatalities Per Billion Passenger Miles

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Causes Of Financial Loss In The USA, 2011

Causes Of Financial Loss In The USA, 2011

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The moderators of ‘Data is Beautiful’ also went in-depth around what kind of content they consider to be good, what visualizations are popular, and what falls into both categories (if this were a Venn diagram, the latter would be the part where the two circles intersect).

Here are two examples of top posts in the last month that “look good and engage the audience to change over time on a popular subject” right here and here. Meanwhile, images like this one and this one might be popular because of the subject matter and what Redditors prefer, however, they’re “awful” and “difficult to read.”

Finally, here’s an example of great data visualization that, unfortunately, doesn’t do great because the subject matter doesn’t appeal to the audience or it’s too technical.

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Most Popular Web Browsers Between 1995 And 2019

Most Popular Web Browsers Between 1995 And 2019

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never even heard of Netscape. For me I have found Opera and Google chrome to be the best. And I hate Firefox.

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My Wife Made This Blanket That Indicates A Certain Temperature For Every Day Of The Year. 2016 Pennsylvania

My Wife Made This Blanket That Indicates A Certain Temperature For Every Day Of The Year. 2016 Pennsylvania

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The ‘Data is Beautiful’ subreddit is about finding the perfect blend of beauty and brains. Or about the best way to present any particular dataset if you look at things from a different perspective. The subreddit is here to share and discuss all the various visual representations of data. From graphs and charts to, yes, even maps!

Another moderator who’s had 7 years of experience working with r/DataIsBeautiful explained that “back in the early days,” they were a niche community focused on attracting data visualization researchers and professionals. With the occasional enthusiast dropping by, too, of course! Eventually, with the growth of the community thanks in large part to a cordial relationship with the Reddit administrators, the subreddit grew to encompass a much broader range of members.

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Lyrical Composition Of Daft Punk's 'Around The World'

Lyrical Composition Of Daft Punk's 'Around The World'

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Public Opinion Of Same-Sex Relations In The United States

Public Opinion Of Same-Sex Relations In The United States

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get the logic behind "never wrong" and "always wrong", but what's the possible explanation for "sometimes wrong"? Like Wednesdays and Fridays?

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“Most of our discussions back then focused on critiques and improvements of the data visualizations themselves, a focus that still sits at the core of the community to this day,” the moderator shared what the start of the community was like.

“In February 2012, the Reddit admins and DIB mods agreed to make /r/DataIsBeautiful a default subreddit. That meant that every new Reddit user would automatically be subscribed to DIB and our top content would consistently show up on the Reddit front page. After that point, our community grew extremely fast and continued growing even when the default subreddits were abolished in mid-2017,” they shared one of the reasons why the sub grew as fast and as big as it did.

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Us College Tuition & Fees vs. Overall Inflation

Us College Tuition & Fees vs. Overall Inflation

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They got no justification for the prices they charge. Just a money making scheme.

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The States In Blue Have A Combined Total Population Equal To Los Angeles County, In Red

The States In Blue Have A Combined Total Population Equal To Los Angeles County, In Red

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Hans
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Populatin density world-wide is a curious thing to study!

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It really isn’t just about the pretty pictures, however. Anyone who wants to dig a little deeper and learn a bit more about how to visualize data well can do so. “We provide a handful of guides for folks just learning to create data visualizations, and we require every original content post to include at least a brief description of the data source and how the data visualization was created so folks can learn from that. DIB is a great place to learn the craft of data visualization by doing,” the moderator shared with Bored Panda.

#25

2020 Electoral Map If Only ____ Voted. Breakdown By Each Major Demographics

2020 Electoral Map If Only ____ Voted. Breakdown By Each Major Demographics

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This seems like a very nice graph, but I'm intrigued as to how this data was collected, or what data was sued. Maybe they used percentages of these populations and then extrapolated that data?

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Donald Trump's Tweet Announcing His Covid-19 Diagnosis Is, By Far, His Most Liked Tweet Since Becoming Us President

Donald Trump's Tweet Announcing His Covid-19 Diagnosis Is, By Far, His Most Liked Tweet Since Becoming Us President

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“DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit,” the subreddit explains what it’s all about.

Now, pretty graphs might not be the entire story, but they can sure help express data in a way that grabs (and holds!) your attention, so you can understand the data better. Something that’s clear and stunning will help you remember it better. And if you understand something well, you can then use that data in arguments and (socially distanced) dinner parties.

#27

Distribution Of Snickers Letters In My Halloween Candy

Distribution Of Snickers Letters In My Halloween Candy

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Tracking My Push-UPS In 2020. My New Year’s Resolution, Was To Do 100 Push-UPS In One Go. It Was A Slow Burn, Took Over 8 Months And 48 Attempts To Build Up My Strength And Stamina (Age 49)

Tracking My Push-UPS In 2020. My New Year’s Resolution, Was To Do 100 Push-UPS In One Go. It Was A Slow Burn, Took Over 8 Months And 48 Attempts To Build Up My Strength And Stamina (Age 49)

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As a whole, the community very much appreciates originality and creativity. They encourage people to post their own original content (it’s got that little OC sign next to in case you want to see what’s what). If there’s a graph that you love in particular, send the creator a warm ‘thank you’ to encourage them to keep on creating data eye-candy. And if you end up sharing it somewhere, be sure to credit it properly. It’s original content, after all!

#29

Google Year In Search 2020 Top Search Terms

Google Year In Search 2020 Top Search Terms

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#30

Attendance At Donald Trump’s Rally In Tulsa, Compared To The Number Of Tickets Trump Claimed Were Requested

Attendance At Donald Trump’s Rally In Tulsa, Compared To The Number Of Tickets Trump Claimed Were Requested

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So, dear Pandas, which chart or graph did you enjoy the most? Do you think that good data will always speak for itself or do we have to give it a gentle nudge to make it more palatable for our eyes and minds? Do you draw maps in your spare time just like I do? And, we’ve got to ask—do you prefer pie charts or bar graphs, dear Readers? Leave us a comment below!

#31

Harry Potter Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions In The Books

Harry Potter Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions In The Books

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#32

11 Different Brands Of Aa Batteries, Tested In Identical Flashlights

11 Different Brands Of Aa Batteries, Tested In Identical Flashlights

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course the Duracell lasted longer. It is longer in size than the rest! I think the experiment was biased.

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#33

The Popularity Of The Name ‘Karen’ Has Seen A Dramatic Decrease Within The Last Ten Years

The Popularity Of The Name ‘Karen’ Has Seen A Dramatic Decrease Within The Last Ten Years

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#34

Cause Of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media

Cause Of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media

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Berlin Subway Map Compared To Its Real Geography

Berlin Subway Map Compared To Its Real Geography

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#36

Percent Of Air Per Bag Of Chips

Percent Of Air Per Bag Of Chips

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool graph. But air in chips bags is necessary - it prevents the chips from cracking. I believe that's why the percentage is so high in Cheetos which as a corn puffs are more delicate than potato chips and so low in Pringles where chips lay on top of each other.

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Top 10 Highest Covid-19 Donations With The Percentage Of Their Net Worth

Top 10 Highest Covid-19 Donations With The Percentage Of Their Net Worth

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#38

Blockbuster Video Us Store Locations Between 1986 And 2019

Blockbuster Video Us Store Locations Between 1986 And 2019

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#39

Would You Rather Be Hot Or Cold?

Would You Rather Be Hot Or Cold?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Neither, I would rather be warm. Even though I hate the cold at least you can keep putting layers on to warm up. Unlike the heat, there is only so much you can take off. Humidity is even worse.

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States Kanye West Received Votes In

States Kanye West Received Votes In

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Sum Guy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still honestly think Kanye was just too proud to not run since he said he would... he just wants to be always right

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