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SNL Episode Guide
In case you’re wondering…
S46 E17 - Ryan Gosling
S48 E12 - Pedro Pascal
S45 E10 - Eddie Murphy
S44 E14 - John Mulaney
S44 E19 - Adam Sandler
S49 E17 - Ryan Gosling (again)
https://episodehive.com/tv-shows/saturday-night-live

We use this prism in our workshops to help create an impactful, communicable, beautiful #infographic

Learn more in our forthcoming seminars:
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A Venn diagram titled 'The Four Elements That Make An Impactful Infographic' showing the intersection of four main elements: 'data information' (yellow), 'concept, question' (blue), 'goal, function' (pink), and 'visualisation design' (grey). The overlapping sections contain specific elements like 'wireframe', 'plot', 'template', and 'rough sketch'. The central overlap shows 'impact', while some intersections are labeled as 'BORING' or 'USELESS'. Created by Information is Beautiful for their training intensives

Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/

Infographic showing the "Evolution of the Alphabet" from Proto-Sinaitic (c. 1750 BCE) to Modern Latin Script. Colorful arrows trace the development of each letter through Phoenician, Archaic Greek, Archaic Latin, and Roman scripts, culminating in the modern 26-letter alphabet. The image demonstrates how letter shapes transformed over time.

China’s westernmost point is closer to Germany than to its easternmost point!

(by @amazingmap)

A satellite view of Earth centered on Asia, showing three labeled points: Fuyuan, HL (China) to the east, Akto, XJ (China) in the center, and Görlitz, SN (Germany) to the west. Lines with distance measurements in kilometers connect Akto to Fuyuan (4876km) and Akto to Görlitz (4624km). A large white arc spans across the globe connecting Fuyuan and Görlitz, passing near Akto, suggesting a great circle route.

Visualizing the USA's $29 TR economy by state

https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Visualizing-Americas-29-Trillion-Economy--4103

Pie chart titled "AMERICA'S $29T ECONOMY BY STATE". The chart is segmented by US regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Plains, Southeast, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Far West) and further divided to show the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of each state within those regions. Each state segment is labeled with its name and GDP in trillions or billions of dollars. California has the largest economy at $4.1T, followed by Texas at $2.7T and New York at $2.3T. Smaller states like Delaware ($104B) and Vermont ($41B) have proportionally smaller slices. An additional segment indicates "$160B Overseas Activity*". The source is listed as the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, with data as of Q3 2024.

Charting human migration over deep time

(via https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/media/2013-01-a-walk-through-time)

A map titled "A WALK THROUGH TIME" showing human migration patterns from Africa across the globe over 200,000 years. The route is color-coded in rainbow bands from red (oldest, 200-60 thousand years ago) through yellow, green, blue, to pink (most recent, 15-10 thousand years ago). A white line traces the 21,000-mile walking route from East Africa ("Start") to South America ("Finish"). The map uses Fuller projection to straighten the circumglobal route.

Africa is BIG

An infographic showing the true size of Africa (30.4m km²) compared to other major countries and regions. Six maps overlay different regions on Africa's outline to demonstrate scale: Russia (17.1m km²), U.S. (9.8m km²), China (9.6m km²), Brazil (8.5m km²), Europe excluding Russia (5.9m km²), and India (3.3m km²). Each comparison is color-coded and labeled with its area.

Child's play
(creator unknown)

A parody image of a LEGO Excel set, featuring a LEGO minifigure in business attire looking at spreadsheets across three monitors on a desk. The desk includes office supplies and the box has typical LEGO set styling with a piece count range of "4-J" and other mock product details.

NEW DATE: Join me for another London Information is Beautiful LIVE show Mon 30th Jun. I'll be hosting a rare night of ‘performance journalism’ - full of graphics, numbers, knowledge and jokes https://geni.us/IIBLive

A promotional image for Information is Beautiful LIVE depicts a man on stage presenting data visuals. A list of tour dates reveals several sold out gigs in London, several US cities and online.

Countries where non-voters would be the strongest voting bloc / party

A map of Europe indicating countries where non-voters would have been the strongest political entity in the most recent parliamentary election between 2021 and 2025. Countries highlighted in red are those where the percentage of non-voters exceeded the vote share of the leading political party. Countries in green indicate that the strongest party received more votes than the number of non-voters. A few countries are shown in grey, likely indicating missing data.

Learn how to turn ideas, stories, numbers into impactful #infographics & data-visuals with Information is Beautiful. Details: https://bit.ly/IIBWAB

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An infographic flyer advertising an online seminar for learning how to create impactful infographics and data visuals with best-selling author and data-visualisation practitioner David McCandless of Information is Beautiful. Discounts are available.

“What a wonderful world it could be”… wait, CORRECTION: *is kinda already*
A different way of seeing the news

https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/news/nygoodtimes/

A mockup of 'The New York Good Times' newspaper website, featuring positive news stories. The main headlines include 'Amazon Deforestation at a 9 Year Low' with a split image showing lush forest next to dry land, 'STUDY: Zero Cases of Cervical Cancer Seen in Women Vaccinated Against HPV as Girls' with a microscopic image of the virus, and '13,370 Children's Deaths from Preventable Disease Prevented Today' accompanied by a medical syringe image. Other stories include 'A 5th Person Has Been Cured of HIV' with a photo of a hand holding a red AIDS awareness ribbon, positive headlines about wind power in Europe, dog cancer vaccines, and women in parliament. The layout mimics The New York Times website design, with navigation sections for U.S., World, Business, Arts, Lifestyle, and other categories at the top.

Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good

US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1

A stacked area chart shows gradations of British superlatives from Abysmal (1.21) through terrible (1.75) and rubbish (2.17) to average (5.09), fine (5.8), and topping out at "very good" (7.9) and excellent (8.95)

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Wait, who is my third cousin twice removed? Oh

The photo shows a drawing of a family tree on a napkin. Starting from a great great grandparent at the top and going down six levels, one can use it to explore the connections and relationship e.g. to aunts, cousins or even a third cousin twice removed

Join us for another funny & unique Information is Beautiful LIVE show in London Mon 30th Jun. IIB founder David McCandless will host a rare night of ‘performance journalism’ - full of graphics, numbers, knowledge and jokes https://geni.us/IIBLive

Love this idea for quick reference travelling

(By Frank Okay https://www.frankokay.com/ @frankokay)

This is a map of New York overlaid on the map of Chicago, titled "A New Yorker's Guide to Chicago" by Frank Okay. New York's boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island) are placed over corresponding areas in Chicago.

% of world population with colour-blindness:
Deuteranomaly (green-weak) 4.6%
Deuteranopia (green-blind) 1.3%
Protoanomaly (red-weak) 1%
Protanopia (red-blind) 1%
Tritanopia (blue-blind) ~rare

This condition affects 1 in 12 men, 1 in 200 women, so more than 350m worldwide. 1 in 22 people.

Four images of tomatoes showing how different types of color blindness affect vision: normal, deuteranomaly, protanopia, and tritanopia. Each image displays varied tomato colors and sizes.

Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection
https://brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-true-size/

World map using a Mercator projection, but with the true relative sizes of countries overlaid in a darker shade. This illustrates how the standard Mercator projection distorts the size of landmasses, particularly those further from the equator, by showing the actual size differences. For example, Canada and Russia appear much smaller in their true relative size compared to their depiction in a standard Mercator projection.

Risk factors for autism, according to evidence.

all data & sources
https://bit.ly/AutismRisks

Word cloud on autism risk factors. Header states autism is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Larger text indicates higher risk factors: having an identical twin with autism, injury to the cerebellum at birth, and siblings with autism. Other risks: premature birth, very low birth weight, older parental age, serious viral infections during the first trimester, closely spaced siblings, male sex, pesticide exposure, and air pollution. Vaccinations, birth month, and parenting do not increase risk. Notes that 60-90% of risk comes from genes, but no single factor guarantees autism. Sources listed at the bottom.

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