Just posted our mega plastics #infographic in time for #EarthWeek2024 Check it informationisbeautiful.net

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90% of books sell less than 2,000 copies. 50% less than 12 copies! Publishers survive by spreadbetting across 1000s of new titles, gambling $$$ on celebrity books, then kids books, backlist sales of bibles, LOTR etc & the odd breakout “sexy vampire” series elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

Vive la bonne nouvelle. The 🇫🇷 edition of Beautiful News Daily visualizes positive trends happening around the globe.

Vive la bonne nouvelle. L'édition 🇫🇷 de Beautiful News visualise les tendances positives qui se produisent dans le monde entier.

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LDN! Rare in-person training coming up. Join #iib founder David McCandless and learn his concept-driven approach to #dataviz .

Mon 8th July 🇬🇧 London LIVE in person

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[UPDATED] We found that ChatGPT prefers 42 when picking a 'random' number. But things move fast in #AI . Now 47 is its new favorite. Claude 3 Haiku still prefers 42, while Gemini picks 72. More on LLM's human biases in this analysis by @‌Gramener.

(gramener.com/llmrandom/)

It’s our 15th anniversary and we’re hosting a series of rare live events this summer in London, SF, LA, NYC or online. Join us for a funny & unique hyper-visual eve of ‘performance journalism’: geni.us/IIBLive #iiblive

#EarthDay Planet vs. Plastics :((

US military aid for #Ukraine was finally approved by the Senate. Here’s why that $61bn was badly needed.

Full infographic informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations…
Data: geni.us/IIB-UkraineData

Now this is #datascience . Which is the best Mario Kart Deluxe kart combo out of 703,560 possible customisations?
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By Antoine Mayerowitz, PhD

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick?
(by Leniolabs_)

Rare in-person #iibwab workshop in London. Join Information is Beautiful founder David McCandless and learn how to turn data into beautiful charts, graphics & stories.

Mon 8th July 🇬🇧 London LIVE in person

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World's favourite cuisines. 25,000 people in 24 countries were asked which nation's food they preferred. Interesting results. (via YouGov)

#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced listicle. Created in association with @‌DataVizSociety #iibwab

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New dates & a new format for our highly-rated #iibwab virtual seminars. Learn how to turn data into beautiful charts, graphics & stories in our online intensives:

Wed 19/20th June 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 UK/EU half days
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Chessboard heatmap. Most landed-upon squares. Analysis of 20,000 games.

(via reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…)

Rare Information is Beautiful LIVE shows - full of graphics, numbers, knowledge and jokes. It's our 15th anniversary and we're hitting venues in London, SF, LA, NYC (maybe elsewhere) and online.

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Thought provoking diagram on the rise and rise of dopamine culture. Not sure this chart completely captures it. But it's interesting to contemplate. (If you can focus your attention on it for longer than 3 seconds :)

(OG article: medium.com/@socialradar.i…)