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Data you can finally picture.
Numbers too big to imagine, drawn to scale.

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How many days of work does one iPhone cost? We counted it in seven countries, and the gap is wild.

Would you work that much for an iPhone?

Apple prices, iPhone Duo 256 GB (October 2026), divided by average hourly pay, 8-hour workdays. Pay: BLS (September 2026, preliminary), ABS, ILOSTAT, MHLW, NBS. Japan and China are estimates.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Filip Troníček (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sardaka (CC0), Boubloub (CC BY-SA 4.0), RuinDig/Yuki Uchida (CC BY 4.0), Supanut Arunoprayote (CC BY 4.0). Via Unsplash: Gabriel Brito, Vidit Goswami.
3D model: iPhone Duo by Pikkme Studio (Sketchfab, CC BY 4.0).

@apple @9to5mac @appleinsider @visualcap @statista

#iphone #apple #iphonefold #money #salary #dataviz #worldwide taken in New York, New York by @data.still

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15 hours ago

This is Tesla's new Roadster, doing a kickflip over a row of Teslas.

So how does a car fly?

No price yet. Reservations: $50,000 for Performance, $250,000 for Thrust (tesla.com/roadster/reserve). Rocket is invite only.
Tesla's claims: tesla.com/roadster. Reporting: Electrek, CNBC, Autoevolution (Oct 15, 2026). Rimac Nevera record: 2023, 1-ft rollout.
Images: Tesla (tesla.com, Tesla on X); reveal photos: Tesla livestream (Oct 15) via Electrek. The ramp and kickflip scenes are illustrations.
Sound: "Car Land/Hit" by JustInvoke (CC BY 4.0, Freesound); other effects CC0.

@teslamotors @spacex @insideevs @topgear @motortrend

#tesla #roadster #teslaroadster #spacex #ev #supercar #cars #technology taken in New York, New York by @data.still

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How long until a new habit runs on autopilot? Everyone says 21 days.

That number comes from a 1960 book by a plastic surgeon. In 2010, researchers in London followed 96 people doing one small thing every day, to find the real number.

What habit would you start tomorrow?

Sources: Lally et al. 2010 (@ucl), European Journal of Social Psychology; Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics (1960); Singh et al. 2024, Healthcare.
Animation: Mixamo (Adobe). Photo of Maxwell Maltz: Alcalá yearbook 1975, public domain.

#habits #psychology #selfimprovement #productivity #science taken in New York, New York by @data.still

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2 days ago

$100 in 1970 is $863 today, says inflation. Same money, on paper.

So we spent both, item by item: gas, Big Macs, eggs, beef, rent, a new house and an hour of minimum-wage work.

Would you rather have $100 in 1970, or $863 today?

Prices: BLS (CPI-U and average prices), US EIA, US Census, USDA, Department of Labor, The Economist (Big Mac index).
Photos: NARA DOCUMERICA and NASA (public domain). Via Wikimedia Commons: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron (CC BY 4.0), Julian Lupyan (CC0), Daniel Lu (CC BY-SA 4.0), Busition (CC BY 4.0), DrewWilliam (CC BY 4.0), NASA/John Kraus (public domain).

#inflation #money #history #dataviz by @data.still

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4 days ago

This computer landed Apollo 11 on the Moon: 32 kg, 4 KB of memory.
The phone in your pocket: 27 million times more storage, 2,400 times faster, 125 times lighter.

What do you use yours for? Tell us in the comments.

Specs: NASA, Apple (RAM estimated).
#apollo11 #nasa #space #iphone #tech by @data.still

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7 days ago

Every gram of gold ever mined fits in one cube.

222,600 tonnes in all of history. Melted together: a cube 22.6 m wide, the size of a seven-story building. 11,500 m³, about 4.6 Olympic pools.
At September's price, about $31 trillion.
Jewelry holds 45%, investors 21% in bars and coins, central banks 18%, funds and industry 16%.

Split it between the 8.3 billion people alive in 2026: 27 grams each. A cube 1.1 cm wide, about $3,700.

Do you own your 27 grams?

Data: World Gold Council, World Bank, UN. Photos: public domain and CC0.

#gold #money #finance #didyouknow #dataviz by @data.still

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7 days ago

$100 in Apple at the 1980 IPO. How much today?

It drops to $50 in 1982, survives near-bankruptcy in 1997, then the iPod and the iPhone send it flying. Guess the final number before the end.

Would you buy Apple today? Tell us in the comments.

Data: Yahoo Finance, dividends not included. Photos: Wikimedia Commons (credits on our YouTube).
#apple #stocks #investing #stevejobs #iphone by @data.still

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8 days ago

How much does it cost to train an AI? In 2012: about $16 📄

We turned AlexNet's computing into one sheet of paper, then gave every new AI its own stack, as tall as the computing it needed.
GPT-3: taller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. GPT-4: almost Mont Blanc. 2026: 213 km, past the edge of space.
2.1 billion times more computing in 14 years. The price went from $16 to $366 million.

Where will it be in 2030? Your guess below 👇

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Data: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0), training compute cost in 2023 USD; 2023–2026 values are Epoch AI estimates.
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Photos: TheStriker (CC BY-SA 4.0), Fritzchens Fritz (CC0), ivva (CC BY-SA 2.0), Dietmar Rabich (CC BY-SA 4.0), Culture Japon (CC BY-SA 4.0), Carlos Jones/ORNL (CC BY 2.0), U.S. DOE (public domain), Forschungszentrum Jülich (CC BY-SA 4.0), Carl Lender (CC BY 2.0), Derrick Coetzee (CC0), Geekerwan (CC BY 3.0), Fukumoto (CC BY-SA 4.0), Pokiiri (CC BY-SA 4.0), PiDatacenters (CC BY-SA 4.0), Gregory Rocher/Ifremer (CC BY 4.0). Links on our YouTube.

#ai #chatgpt #dataviz #artificialintelligence #science by @data.still

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9 days ago

In 1957, we launched 2 objects into space. How many today? 🚀

Every dot is one object launched since Sputnik.
For 63 years, launches grew slowly. Then came 2020.
64% of everything ever launched went up in the last 6 years.

Where will we be in 2030? Your guess below 👇

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Data: UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, via Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0). Photos: NASA, U.S. Space Force, Wikimedia Commons

#space #satellites #dataviz #starlink #science by @data.still

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