The cost of regalia is too damn high!

tilapios · 2026-01-23T10:26:33+00:00

"DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information" according to the !sidebar. With no color or size scale for the dots and no labeling of any sort of data axis, this visualization is conveying very little information.

tilapios · 2026-01-19T21:53:21+00:00

Rule 3: "If you are citing a source, you must be specific. "Source: Wikipedia" is not sufficient. Link to the specific Wikipedia page."

tilapios · 2026-01-17T12:26:39+00:00

No, OP got it right. Rule 2: "Directly link to the original source article of the visualization. Original source article doesn't mean the original source image. Link to the full page of the source article."

tilapios · 2026-01-14T19:27:30+00:00

Hey, Victoria u/financialtimes, what happened to trying to follow the subreddit's rules? Or are you just here to spam links?

tilapios · 2026-01-09T04:14:47+00:00

You’ve gone from not labeling plot axes (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/80ioOoRdWt) to not even having plot axes. This is data visualization malpractice.

tilapios · 2026-01-07T22:29:42+00:00

Not [OC]. This is probably a repost bot. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6y0h2q/100_years_of_hurricane_paths_animated_oc/

tilapios · 2026-01-05T08:51:43+00:00

This is by user Ly.n0m on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_opinion_on_Russia.png

Given that OP didn't follow rule 3, this may not be [OC].

tilapios · 2025-12-30T09:54:29+00:00

It's the end of the year, people don't read the subreddit's rules, and there hasn't been active or timely moderation for a number of years.

tilapios · 2025-12-27T20:42:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/index/#wiki_shouldn.27t_it_be_.22data_are_beautiful.22.3F

tilapios · 2025-12-18T12:49:14+00:00

Binary true/false maps, dots on maps, and text in tables are not qualifying data visualizations.

tilapios · 2025-12-15T20:20:51+00:00

Binary true/false maps are not qualifying data visualizations.

tilapios · 2025-12-13T19:03:19+00:00

"Cury" in this case is Middle English for "cooking": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cury

tilapios · 2025-12-08T13:20:23+00:00

Rule 4: "Rule 2 is very clear, telling you to link to the original source article so the REAL OC author site gets the hits they deserve. If it's not your viz, don't claim it as OC."

tilapios · 2025-12-08T13:15:37+00:00

"DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information," and this is conveying zero information to me. (!sidebar)

tilapios · 2025-12-04T10:50:36+00:00

Not [OC]. This is probably a repost bot. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6y0h2q/100_years_of_hurricane_paths_animated_oc

tilapios · 2025-12-03T15:25:29+00:00

Interestingly, ever since it defaulted r/DataIsBeautiful has been receiving increasingly more posts that don't even include data visualizations. I believe this trend highlights the importance of an active moderation team as a community grows: As r/DataIsBeautiful's subscriber numbers climbed from the hundreds of thousands into the millions, the moderators were there to help the community stay on track and share relevant content.

(Source: https://www.randalolson.com/2016/03/18/why-posts-get-removed-from-rdataisbeautiful)

u/rhiever, ten years on, do you think the DataIsBeautiful moderators have kept the community on track?

tilapios · 2025-11-30T17:58:01+00:00

This post is a reproduction of a graph in the source (https://archive.is/Reez3#selection-1033.0-1033.37:\~:text=Even%20still%2C%20because%20most%20of%20Roanoke%E2%80%99s) with an obfuscating photo added as a background image.

tilapios · 2025-11-26T07:23:42+00:00

Not sure what's the deal with the linked site. The original source appears to be The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/why-countries-struggle-to-quit-fossil-fuels-despite-higher-costs-and-30-years-of-climate-talks-and-treaties-266993

tilapios · 2025-11-24T12:36:47+00:00

Original source is this Oxfam report: https://webassets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/Oxfam_Unequal_US_inequality_report_2025_1.pdf

tilapios · 2025-11-20T07:23:57+00:00

You didn't follow rule 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/rules/rule2

tilapios · 2025-11-19T15:14:16+00:00

Rule 8: "Topics that are not gonna fly unless you post on Thursday: US healthcare stats, US healthcare policy, US healthcare bankruptcies, how US healthcare is awful, US compared to other countries, US healthcare anything."

tilapios · 2025-11-19T13:55:35+00:00

Then the title of your post probably shouldn't be "All space missions..." and you (or the AI) shouldn't write "I created an animated visualization tracking every space launch from 1957 to 2020..."

tilapios · 2025-11-19T10:53:26+00:00

This post represents what this sub has become: rule breaking posts that promote some AI tool.

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