r/dataisbeautiful is a subreddit with 21.8M members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses oc, data, worst, world, and us.
DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information.
Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit.
Popular Themes in r/dataisbeautiful
#1
News
: "New US college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker for the first time on record, 1990 to 2026 [OC]"
2 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Addiction's 1.79T annual economic cost in the US"
1 post
#3
Advice Requests
: "Hello! I am a student testing the usability of two static visualisations I created in R from cardiovascular data gathered from Our World in Data. I would love some help to gather qualitative feedback for my assignment. I have provided a short copy and paste template for each chart."
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "[OC] I scraped 2.97 million home sales to rank the coziest cities in America. Bellingham, WA ranked #1. Anchorage ranked #7."
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "I mapped rent vs buy break-even timelines across US cities green means buying wins, red means renting does"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/dataisbeautiful
#1
Oc
: "[Oc] I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100"
369 posts
#2
Data
: "The Real Data Behind Google's Polymarket $1.2M Insider"
97 posts
#3
Worst
51 posts
#4
World
: "[OC] World's Top 10 Languages by Total Speakers in 2026"
38 posts
#5
Us
: "New Us college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker for the first time on record, 1990 to 2026 [OC]"
30 posts
#6
Population
: "[OC] 25 years of fashion models vs. the US Population: almost no overlap in body fat, and even "plus-size" models sit below the average American woman"
30 posts
#7
Visualization
: "[OC] Interactive Visualization: Bikeshare ridership patterns in NYC"
21 posts
#8
Usa
: "[OC] Capital Punishment Execution 1976-2025 in Usa"
16 posts
#9
Struggling
12 posts
#10
Economy
: "Worldwide, a quarter of new car sales are electric vehicles or hybrids"
12 posts
Flair Used in r/dataisbeautiful
#1
OC
: "[OC] I asked GPT to pick a random number between 1 and 100"
163 posts
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Last updated: June 10, 2026