Never Forget Where Your Booze Came From With This Lovely Whiskey Chart

Never Forget Where Your Booze Came From With This Lovely Whiskey Chart

Our friends at Pop Chart Lab love tracing down the tangled, tortuous branches of the family trees connecting some of our favorite things. They’ve done it for beer , and now they’re switching to the hard stuff, with a lovely taxonomy of the world’s many types of whiskey.

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A Step by Step Walkthrough of the World’s First Great Infographic

A Step by Step Walkthrough of the World's First Great Infographic

Data visualization is an amazing way to get a point across. That is, when you’re making infographics that aren’t just dumb . Charles Joseph Minard‘s famous visual telling of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia is one of the first great examples, if a little intimidating at a glance. And this explanation by the folks at Numberphile really helps bring it home.

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365 Days of Weather in 35 Cities, All in a Single Beautiful Image

365 Days of Weather in 35 Cities, All in a Single Beautiful Image

Next time your weather forecast predicts the blizzard of the century, you could gaze at this gorgeous weather visualization and find where in the world you should be vacationing. (Spoiler: it’s probably California.) The designers at Raureif, masterminds behind a successful weather app, have gone analog—packing a whole year’s worth of global weather into one amazing poster.

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How Much Pizza Costs in Different Neighborhoods Across America

How Much Pizza Costs in Different Neighborhoods Across America

Everybody loves pizza. (This guy, especially .) But not everyone enjoys equal access to pizza. Some neighborhoods have more pizza places than others, and, more importantly, pizza is more expensive some places than in others. What can you do about it? Educate yourself.

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How Long You Have to Work Minimum Wage For One Beer, By Country

How Long You Have to Work Minimum Wage For One Beer, By Country

No matter where in the world you live, you’re working for the weekend. How much you can enjoy said weekend, though, varies greatly from country to country. Meet Quartz’s Beer Index. It’ll make you glad you’re not in Georgia.

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Be Totally Entranced By These Technicolor Winds Swirling Around Earth

Be Totally Entranced By These Technicolor Winds Swirling Around Earth

Earth from above is a beautiful sight and, apart from cats and porn, there’s almost nothing the internet likes more at the moment than data visualizations. Combine the two and you’ve got solid gold—or in Earth‘s case, a stunning, technicolor look at global wind and weather conditions.

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See How Murdery Your Neighborhood Is With the NYPD’s Interactive Map

See How Murdery Your Neighborhood Is With the NYPD's Interactive Map

The NYPD isn’t known for its, uh, transparency. In fact, it’s mostly known for aggressively withholding information. So this new, interactive crime map released by the NYPD this weekend is a welcome surprise.

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The longest rivers and the tallest mountains in one exquisite graphic

The longest rivers and the tallest mountains in one exquisite graphic

It may not be accurate anymore, but I want a hard copy of this beautiful 1854 graphic that shows the longest rivers and the tallest mountains in the world—so I’m definitely taking this high resolution file and printing it. Click here for more information about these charts.

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A Map of Where All Your Favorite Horror Movies Take Place

A Map of Where All Your Favorite Horror Movies Take Place

The monster in a horror movie is scary, sure. But an eerie setting is just as important. Fortunately just about anywhere can be freaky as hell when you’re alone in the dark, but some places get more horror movie love than others. And this great map by the folks at Esri shows you the horrible hotspots.

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The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The display on your phone is relatively tiny. But in pixels, it’s friggin’ huge. That’s the beauty of high resolution. So how would that phone screen compare to your TV, or your tablet or your laptop if it was spread out to a similarly-sized screen? Doghouse Diaries made this graphic to show you, and it’s kind of nuts.

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