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This is an excellent and fascinating animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018
by @jburnmurdoch

Hang in - it takes a few seconds to begin. Twentieth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/
Nineteenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Chart illustrating how different ways to divide 50 people into five districts can lead to different election outcomes.

We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A:

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000

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This chart shows that mosquitoes are responsible for more than 700,000 deaths a year whereas sharks kill about 10 people a year.

Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job
🇹🇷 Turkey 15%
🇨🇴 Colombia 14%
🇲🇽 Mexico 13%
🇬🇷 Greece 10%
🇰🇷 S Korea 8%
🇨🇱 Chile 7%
🇯🇵 Japan 6%
🇦🇺 Australia 6%
🇫🇷 France 5%
🇬🇧 UK 4%
🇺🇸 US 3%
🇨🇦 Canada 3%
🇪🇸 Spain 3%
🇫🇮 Finland 2%
🇩🇪 Germany 2%
🇩🇰 Denmark 2%
🇸🇪 Sweden 1%
🇳🇴 Norway 1%
Seventeenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Chart shows share of workers working 60 hours a week or more, ranging from 15% in Turkey to less than 1% in Lithuania

U.S. men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1898-2008
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/64q73v/comment/dg44iay/
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Chart shows changing facial hair styles over time. Clean-shaven predominates in many periods but not in the 1970s.

The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
Fifteenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Chart showing number of civilian owned guns per 100 people in various countries. The US number - 120.5 - is much higher than any other country.

Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jslbn9/us_elevation_tiles_oc/
Fourteenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

This is a 3d elevation map of the contiguous United States.

Which US state has the largest share of people with ancestry from each European country?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/q9ct5b/what_us_state_has_the_largest_ancestry_in/
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This map of Europe labels European countries with the name of the US state that has the largest share of people claiming ancestry from that country. For example, Spain is labeled "New Mexico" and France is labeled "Maine."

80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch
Twelfth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Chart showing 80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.

The only things on this map are railroads!
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/
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Map of the railroads of the world. Railroads seem particularly dense in Europe.

Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
Tenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

This is an optical illusion. Circles are initially hard to distinguish for many people.

Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude.

The Gulf Stream makes winters less severe in many European cities than it is in their U.S./Canadian counterparts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d8tbs5/major_cities_and_towns_in_north_america_replaced/
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This map shows major cities in North America being replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude. For example, Seattle is replace with Zurich.

2022 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
https://rsf.org/en/index
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This is a map color-coded to match the general condition of freedom of the press in each country.

This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
Seventh in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

This is a map showing the very long time it took to travel from London to the rest of the world in 1881.

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/
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Estimated gender pay gap within job (same occupation at same firm)
🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z#
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
Fifth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Table with coefficients from various Ordinary Least Squares regressions modeling gender gaps in pay in 15 countries.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

More info: https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
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Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.

This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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This is a density map of the world's population with no other countries boundaries. It is difficult to discern Australia and New Zealand because people are not very concentrated in these countries.

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/ Second in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Scatterplot showing a correlation between rates of chocolate consumption and rates of Nobel Laureates

Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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