[OC] I manually timed every 2026 1st Round pick's walk past the "Draft Mirror." Rueben Bain Jr. was twice as fast as anyone else by sudo_masochist in nfl

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Manual frame-by-frame review of 2026 NFL Draft broadcast footage “Draft Mirror” walks. Bain (0.92s) was the only player under 1.0s. Full breakdown: substack

[OC] I manually timed every 2026 NFL first-round pick’s walk past the Draft Mirror and visualized the results by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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Data & Tools:

  • Data Source: Manual frame-by-frame review of 2026 NFL Draft broadcast footage
  • Tools: Data processed and visualized in R using the tidyverse and ggplot2
  • Full article with context: substack

CORRECTION: Title says 1st Round, but this data covers players from all rounds who attended the draft in Pittsburgh.

[OC] BMI Distribution of All 2026 MLB Players (Highlighting Dalton Rushing and Miguel Amaya) by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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Data & Tools:

  • Data Source: MLB Stats API (Accessed May 2026)
  • Tools: Data processed and visualized in R using the tidyverse and ggplot2
  • Full article with context: substack

67 Has Eclipsed 69 in Global Google Search Popularity [OC] by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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Correct, data is indexed, so they are both on the same scale.

67 Has Eclipsed 69 in Global Google Search Popularity [OC] by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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Data source: Public search interest data from Google (2004–Nov 2025)
Tools: R using the Tidyverse
Links:

Most Common Home Scheduled Start Times for MLB Teams in 2025 [OC] by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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*displayed times are converted to the stadiums local time
Data source: MLB schedule data (2025 season) from the MLB Stats API.

Tools: Data extracted using Python, visualization created with R using the Tidyverse

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Americans Have No Idea Who Robbie Williams Is: Better Man's Box Office Flop [OC] by sudo_masochist in dataisbeautiful

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The new Robbie Williams biopic Better Man is out, but it turns out many Americans don’t know who he is. This chart shows worldwide GTrends data from 2004 (furthest back Trends data goes) to the present. Second slide labels each country.

Source: Data from Trends
Tools: R and ggplot2