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Visual journalism and open data done properly — charts you can interrogate rather than just look at. The argument is in the interaction. All 17 were opened and written up by hand, and last checked on 29 July 2026.
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One quick round, then you can leave.
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populationpyramid.net
Every country's age structure, 1950 to 2100
visualcapitalist.com
One big chart a day, usually about money
9 sites
Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
data-is-plural.com
A weekly note listing five datasets you can have
gapminder.org
Hans Rosling's bubble chart, still worth an hour
informationisbeautiful.net
Design-led charts answering questions tables cannot
pewresearch.org
Survey findings with all the tables still attached
rawgraphs.io
Paste a spreadsheet, drag it into a real chart
reuters.com
News stories where the graphic is the reporting
usafacts.org
US government numbers, assembled without a slant
data.worldbank.org
Free indicators for every country, back to 1960
worldmapper.org
Maps where country size means the actual quantity
5 sites
Clear your evening. We warned you.
data.census.gov
The American statistical record, queryable directly
flowingdata.com
Nathan Yau on what the numbers are doing to us
vizhub.healthdata.org
A treemap of what people die of, by country and year
observablehq.com
Notebooks where the charts recompute as you edit
ourworldindata.org
Long-run charts on almost every global problem
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