dataviz

A small gallery of charts and data, each with a story.

Dark leaderboard bar chart titled 'The World's 10 Richest People,' net worth as of June 12, 2026. Each row pairs a circular portrait with a horizontal bar, ranked top to bottom. Elon Musk sits at No. 1 with a single long gold bar reaching $1.1T, far longer than any other. Below him in muted slate bars: Larry Page ($294B), Sergey Brin ($271B), Jeff Bezos ($249B), Larry Ellison ($232B), Michael Dell ($225B), Mark Zuckerberg ($195B), Jensen Huang ($177B), Bernard Arnault ($157B), and Warren Buffett ($144B). Musk's gold bar is longer than the next four slate bars laid end to end.

Elon Musk, the World's First Trillionaire

The week the SpaceX IPO pushed Elon Musk past a trillion dollars, his fortune topped the world's ten richest and exceeded the next four combined.

 Editorial line chart on a warm parchment background titled America's New Top Dog, showing AKC dog breed popularity rank from 1991 to 2025. A terracotta line for the French Bulldog climbs from No. 82 up to No. 1, crossing a slate-blue line for the Labrador Retriever that holds the top until the early 2020s. Every other breed is a faint grey line in the background, and the right rail shows sepia portraits of the two breeds with their rank numerals.

America's Dog Breed Rankings, 1991 to 2025

An interactive chart of every AKC breed's popularity rank by year, 1991 to 2025. Search any breed, click a line, and compare.

 Robinson-projection world map showing 263 commercial nuclear power plants as dots, sized by capacity and colored by the decade of first commercial operation: deep brick for pre-1970, rust and copper for the 1970s and 80s, warm grey for the 1990s, slate and navy for the 2000s and 2010s onward. Filled dots have at least one reactor still operating; hollow rings have none. Rust and copper dots cluster densely across the U.S. East Coast, Western Europe, Japan, and Korea, while navy dots concentrate along eastern China.

Nuclear Power, Mostly Built by Your Grandparents

Every commercial nuclear power plant ever built, colored by the decade its first reactor came online. Of 263 plants worldwide, 64% started up in just the 1970s and 80s.

 Horizontal stacked bar chart showing the gender split among 25-34 year-olds holding a bachelor's degree or higher in 14 large OECD countries. Women are the majority in 13 of 14 countries, ranging from 51.6% in Germany to 59.6% in Italy. Japan is the only country where men hold the majority at 54.2%. A dashed parity line marks 50%.

Who's Getting the Degrees?

Among 25-34 year-olds with a bachelor's degree or higher, women are the majority in 13 of 14 large OECD countries.

 Stacked area chart of U.S. recorded music revenue by physical format from 1973 to 2025, in nominal USD. Vinyl peaks at $1.5B in 1978, cassettes peak at $1.9B in 1990, and CDs peak at $7.5B in 2000 before collapsing. An inset zoom on 2010-2025 shows vinyl overtaking CDs in 2020 and reaching $1.04B in 2025 versus $0.31B for CDs.

Vinyl Is Back

U.S. recorded music revenue by physical format, 1973-2025. Vinyl tops $1B for the first time since 1983 and now runs about 3.3x CD revenue.

 World map showing each country's default clock format on phones and operating systems. 146 countries and territories default to 24-hour (15:00), 102 default to 12-hour (3:00 pm), and 2 are mixed within country. Canada and Syria are split internally by language.

How the World Tells Time

Every country's default clock format on phones and operating systems, 12-hour vs 24-hour.

 Ridgeline chart of monthly US Google search interest for 31 houseplant species from 2004 to 2025, with each species labeled by its peak month. Most species peaked in late 2020, in the months after lockdowns began. A handful (snake plant, alocasia, monstera, and others) were still rising as of late 2025.

Two Decades of Houseplant Trends

When each houseplant species peaked in US Google search interest, 2004 to 2025.

 Bar chart comparing 2024 GDP per capita (PPP-adjusted) of selected economies. U.S. average: $85,373. Germany: $69,630. Canada: $62,760. Mississippi: $60,990. France: $60,340. South Korea: $59,330. United Kingdom: $58,880. Italy: $56,910. Spain: $52,800. New Zealand: $52,640. Japan: $52,120. Mississippi is highlighted with an annotation noting price-level adjustment.

Mississippi vs. the World

GDP per capita, price-level adjusted, 2024.