{"id":"data-visualization","name":"Data Visualization","summary":"Data Visualization is the online genre of charts, infographics, and dot plots covering everything from serious journalism to comedy pieces about bad statistics. Its internet-era community formed on Reddit in 2008 and hit critical mass with r/dataisbeautiful in 2012.","tags":["data visualization","dataviz meme","r/dataisbeautiful","xkcd charts","spurious correlations","infographic meme","tyler vigen"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":4,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/data-visualization/data-visualization-tyler-vigen-spurious-correlation.webp","caption":"A famous spurious correlation visualization by Tyler Vigen showing how unrelated variables can appear statistically linked when plotted together.","width":680,"height":635,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/data-visualization/data-visualization-nicolas-cage-drownings-chart.webp","caption":"The classic Nicolas Cage spurious correlation chart, often cited as an example of misleading data visualization.","width":677,"height":562,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/data-visualization/data-visualization-xkcd-adjective-obscenities-chart.webp","caption":"An XKCD comic using a dot-plot visualization to compare how often adjectives are paired with obscene intensifiers.","width":632,"height":649,"nsfw":true},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/data-visualization/data-visualization-xkcd-money-chart-infographic.webp","caption":"XKCD's sprawling 'Money' chart, a widely shared example of large-scale comparative data visualization.","width":680,"height":453,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/data-visualization/history.md","related":["sankey-diagram","interest-graphs","heaviest-objects-in-the-universe","dunning-kruger-effect","mathematics","decibel-level-charts","slaps-chicken-at-327595-mph","the-conspiracy-chart","fly-brain-simulations-fruit-fly-brain-mapped","powehi-first-image-of-black-hole","xkcd"],"popularityRank":2435,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}