r/dataisbeautiful
The Reddit community
A large Reddit community for sharing visualizations, where original work is tagged OC and must say where its data came from.
What you will find
- Charts posted every day, with original work tagged OC
- A source and tool comment on original posts
- Comment threads that question axes, sources and choices
What we can learn from it
- 01Read the comments: readers quickly spot misleading axes and missing context
- 02Always name the source and the tool, a habit worth keeping everywhere
Chart types you will meet there
Sankey diagram
Flows between stages drawn as bands whose width is proportional to volume.
Bar chart
Horizontal bars compare a measure across categories, with room for long category names.
Line chart
Shows how a measure changes across an ordered, continuous axis, usually time.
Similar sites
World of Statistics
A widely followed account on X posting short statistics, rankings and charts many times a day.
Tableau Public
A free platform for publishing Tableau dashboards, with Viz of the Day picking one community piece every day.
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless’s studio site: facts and data turned into designed graphics, many of them interactive and kept up to date, alongside the Information is Beautiful Awards for work by others.