Beautiful Visualizations from Reddit’s DataViz Battle Competition

Gallery of visualizations from the largest open-source community of data-enthusiasts

By 2020, humans will generate a mind-bending 40 yottabyte of data per day. That is enough data to create a line of standard 1 TB hard disks from the Earth to the Sun, 25 times over!*

With so many inputs, a visualization’s form factor is just one of the details that businesses will be mindful of as they try to make sense of the numbers. It’s a skill that requires a mastery of the art itself to build a clutter-free and robust representation of a complex dataset.

There is no better place on the internet to find people master this art than the 13.6 million-member thriving community of data-enthusiasts on one of Reddit’s most popular subreddit: /r/DataIsBeautiful.

Since January 2018, this subreddit has held a monthly data visualization competition for user-submitted data-sets that support interesting themes: like drug harm, traffic accidents in the UK, Pokémon and The Office. At the end of each month, subscribers send their masterpieces to score the highest in three key areas of judgment: analysis, aesthetics, and display. The winners get awarded a Reddit Gold and bragging rights on the community.