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It’s predicted that by 2025 we will reach 175 zettabytes of data created worldwide. For reference, one zettabyte stores as much information as 33 million human brains. Seeing such a figure, it can be hard to wrap around our heads just how much data is available to us, let alone be able to scratch its surface. 

That’s why the creator of the Instagram account “We Have The Data” does their best to find and share data visualizations that present big amounts of information in an easy-to-understand and aesthetically pleasing way. Scroll down to find their best posts and make sure to upvote the ones that you find the most enlightening. 

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a dear friend who turned 100 this year and imagine how much the world has changed for her, during her lifetime! (PS...hi Noelene!!)

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    In the last eleven years, the generated volume of data grew by almost 5000% worldwide. And if someone would download all the information from the web today, it would take approximately 181 million years.

    Despite these numbers being quite substantial, only 10% of the data we have today is original. The rest is copied and replicated. In fact, it’s predicted that the unique and copied information ratio will change from 1:9 to 1:10 by the end of 2024.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For clarity, this is a warning system that raises an alarm so that extra samples are taken and analysed in a lab (this is in addition to regular samples that are tested frequently, regardless of the sentinel clams). The fate of the Polish water supply is not dictated solely by all powerful clams.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who romanticize the past should be required to watch the complete series of "Horrible Histories".

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    Internet users spent around 2.8 million years online in 2018, generating more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. This number just keeps growing, as it was found that in 2020, internauts created 1.7 megabytes of information every second, totaling 40 zettabytes that year.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh. As a Canadian and a railfan....I just shake my head. They've been talking of plans to do something about this longer than Ive been dlive.

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    "The journey of an Arctic Fox who walked from Norway to Canada in 2018"

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    How do we do it? Well, WhatsApp users alone exchange more than 65 billion messages and complete 55 million video calls daily. The app allows more than 1 billion groups to connect and interact with each other, generating large amounts of data. 

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were other inter-connected networks by that time, going by various names and using various networking protocols, in Europe as well as the USA. That one is thought of as the precursor to the internet just by virtue of the way it set many ground rules for what would become TCP/IP, the backbone of the very much later World Wide Web..

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    According to 2023 statistics, Facebook produces 4,000 terabytes each day and ranks as the most visited site worldwide. Meanwhile, X accumulates 500 million posts daily, totaling 560 gigabytes of information. And the young people’s favorite app, TikTok, averages 7.35 terabytes of data each day. 

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Example of what's called "environmental determinism".

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wight is effected by the density of ingredients. For example, a place where I worked had a cafeteria that based the price of a salad on size of the bowl instead of weight. So I would pack in all of the heavy ingredients and then use them over the weekend for other dishes. It was cheaper than going to the grocery store.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being born in the right place (and at the right time, for many) in essence means you’ve won the jackpot of life. We just don’t see it most of the time because we’re surrounded by other lucky bastards

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    Before most of this information is stored away, it’s converted into numbers 1 and 0. When it’s changed into symbols that computers can process quicker, it can be stored away in one of three locations. First are devices that can be linked to the internet, like our personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and other similar technologies

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    "The Amazon River and its tributaries"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find it crazy that in 2024 around 20% of people in russia have no indoor plumbing

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why politicians should not be allowed to benefit from their decisions - being a landlord or owning company shares should bar you from public office. In Plato's republic, the lawmakers were the wisest people motivated by wanting to build a great society for all. Their needs were all met by the state, but they owned no private property.

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    The second is called the edge, which already includes bigger infrastructures like cell towers and servers used in institutions like universities, government offices, factories, and banks. The third location that stores the most amount of data is known as the core, which are traditional data servers and cloud data centers.

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    "Uptown, midtown, downtown of Toronto"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was astounded to see photos of "the great metropolitan Toronto" from the late 70s/early 80s. Aside from the CN tower (1976) it doesn't even LOOK like Toronto!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🕯 for people, from all countries, who have lost their homes or worse

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    The largest data center in the world belongs to China Telecom Data Centre, in Hohhot. It occupies 10.7 million square feet, equivalent to about 180 football fields. When we say that we store information in the cloud, it’s not being stashed away somewhere in the atmosphere. It’s being kept in massive data centers—physical objects that actually take up quite a lot of space on our planet. 

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    Since data generation is ever-growing, to meet the demand for storage, around 100 new data centers are built every two years. It’s estimated that if it continues to increase at the rate it is now, to sustain it, in 110 years we’ll need all the planetary power we consume today. 

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    "The easternmost point of Brazil is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point"

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What determines where the solar system ends? Is this the radius of where the furthest things can be that orbit our sun? I'm surprised how populated the outer 'skin' looks, or is that just to help us visualise it?

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    "A cool guide showing you the various patterns of black and white or tuxedo cats"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this correlation or causation? People who are able to dance are definitely feeling better than those who are unable (by dint of a depressive illness I mean) Maybe more research is needed??

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    "The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in different languages"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shows those languages that use the tens+units format, so each ten has the same shaped cluster, vs those that use the units+tens format. (i.e. twenty-one, twenty-two etc. vs one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty...)

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a little misleading, shows the areas where wolves have been reported but doesn't give any true idea of how few there still are in those areas.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True this, but the difference is that now all the modern music really is c**p. /jk

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    "Ugly Gerry" is a font created by gerrymandered congressional districts

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess this is why the years seem to go faster as you get older. I turned 50 last month and was thinking best case scenario I'm half way through my life, but now I see even if I live to be 100 I'm already nearly dead!

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One summer I was visiting Glacier National Park, looking at a mountain and, you guessed it, a glacier. An older woman, there with her teenage children, piped up asking, "What's all that white stuff on the top of the mountain?" To which one of her kids replied, "It's a glacier, Mom." The mom, no joke, retorted, "I don't think so cuz it's summertime and there isn't snow during the summer. I think it's probably a bunch of sheep grouping together to stay warm." Seriously! A grown woman argued that the glaciers in GLACIER National Park, are actually herds of sheep clumped together. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Berlin...yeah, we just drag that city with us for some reason...

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't think there's many, if any, old growth trees in the lighter green middle-of-Australia sections on this map! This makes it look like the arid, desert regions are vastly wooded lol.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you want a better look at who lived where, go here--> https://native-land.ca/ . It shows where the native peoples lived. It's mostly North America, but there are some in Africa as well. Edit: They've added the tribes in Australia!!! Those weren't there last time I looked.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Motorcyclists have a chance of accident 30 TIMES higher than car drivers. Chance of injury is on average 4 times higher and chance of death is 28 times higher. A biker is 120 TIMES more likely to get hurt in an accident than a car driver or passenger. Statistically, the biker is overwhelmingly more likely to be at fault, and the most common cause is the aggregated "Driver error" category, that includes distracted and aggressive driving, lane splitting or overtaking where not allowed. 34% of fatalities are from speeding on the biker's part, and 28-40% of accidents depend on the biker being under influence of alcohol. Even in most accidents where the car driver is at fault, there is often a concurrent cause of the biker erratically driving (crossing lanes, zigzagging through traffic) or lack of visibility conditions (no high-viz -and often black- clothing, moving too close to vans and truck blindspots)

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in blue with one parent born in red but living in & with citizenship in blue, whilst the other parent born in red living in & with citizenship in red. Which is why I have jus soli citizenship/ passport & jus sanguinis citizenship & passport, having lived back & forth between both.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eight months: Convict ships from England to Australia when colonisation happened. They really must have thought they were going to the end of the world.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is based on where people are resident when they die, not where they lived. The Florida cluster demonstrates how skewed this one is, due to the fact that many people don't move there until their old age.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a compound of the technology maturing far faster than expected with scientific breakthroughs, production cost dropping far quicker than expected from technological improvements and scale economy, and panels outperforming even the best life expectancy estimates by a factor of 5. Countries who invested in solar and wind production have seen the price of energy visibly drop as a result, and being far more stable than any other countries, including those that focused on nuclear energy.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to know how big a drink is. Is it the same as the standard(-ish) 'unit of alcohol' commonly used by governments telling us how much we should (or should not) drink?

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why we're doomed - We're not going to tackle climate change because rich countries will not reduce their energy use. They tickle the problem by talking about sustainable energy sources, but you'll never win an election by saying we're using too much. A rake is cheap, will last a lifetime and is powered by your breakfast, but it doesn't generate wealth like a leaf-blower does!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remarkably little variation actually. I wonder how it would compare with figures from thirty of forty years ago.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you want to know: Spain eats so late, because they share Middle European Time (the same time zone as Poland), so the sun rises and sets a lot later on he clock than in most other countries.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chai is a different process, where the leaves are processed with the "Crush, Tear & Curl" process (CTC), while Tea uses fermented full leaves (the so-called "Orthodox" method). In China the first type is called "Cha", while the second is called "Tê". Both come from the same word (茶), that is pronounced differently in the north (where the CTC process was born and trading mostly via land transport, thus Chai) and in the south (where full leaves were common and trade was mostly via sea, so "Tea"). It's a mistake to conflate the two processes since they are different per culture and tradition, the fact they spread in different ways is just a consequence.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    150.000 USD is crazy affordably compared to Germany. The average price for a house here is 345.000 USD (320.000€). (And before people explain it to me, this is because we build our houses of brick, not wood.)

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet women don't start saying that men are "peak child fathering age" at 18 and that this was our excuse to go after barely legal boys. Compare with sexist men and their Lolita complex...

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is very similar to some algebra tests you do routinely in 3rd and 4th year of high school (i think it's equivalent to 10th/11th Grade in the US). Current admission tests to our public universities are way harder, including derivatives, integrals and analytical functions that require graph plotting (sorry not sure how it translates in technical terms), and that's for the math module alone.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if / how much this has changed over time. I live in Washington. I see windows so dark that are apparently allowed but I THINK (not sure) would have been illegal when I was younger.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is NOT the map of New York, but the map of New Amsterdam on the island of Manahata. Later traded with the British for a small island in Maluku. The only place on earth (back then) where nutmeg grew

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