“insightful visuals” thread

1. Improvement vs perceived improvement https://twitter.com/funugly/status/1066620613442162688?s=21
2. Meandering vs systematic exploration https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/998406389440512000?s=21
3. Incremental vs Iterative https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1061640268485615616?s=21
4. Video game level design https://twitter.com/radiatoryang/status/765976617378349056?s=21
5. Unrealistic vs realistic graffiti https://twitter.com/jayrock5858/status/1054102717109493760?s=21
6. overcoming functional fixedness https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/924856413712797696?s=21
7. How Steven Spielberg uses the background to introduce characters and action https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1035087529806942209?s=21
8. A simple, accessible and fun list of logical fallacies https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044523057723826178?s=21
9. https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1065213442418720768?s=21
10. The greatest Venn diagram humanity has yet conceived
11. Wasn’t expecting that
12. (Harrison()Ford)
13. Mortality rates https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1069961691264401409?s=21
14. this is technically a screenshot of text rather than an actual image, but I'm putting it here anyway because I think it's worth revisiting https://twitter.com/johannes_mono/status/1069887811204120576
15. survivorship bias

The damaged portions of returning planes show locations where they can take a hit and still return home safely; those hit in other places do not survive. (Image shows hypothetical data.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
16. patterns in PINs across entire population(s) https://twitter.com/iand/status/706117319223873536
17. "X is overtaking Y" sometimes means "both X and Y and slowing down, and Y is slowing down faster than X" https://twitter.com/TheWonkologist/status/1062365521398714368
18. GDP over time https://twitter.com/ian_fraser/status/1073357036283420672?s=21
19. Why it’s useful not just to know the statistical average, but the dispersion as well (especially when outliers have outsized consequences) https://twitter.com/recborg/status/1011736833561112576?s=21
20. generating -> analyzing -> synthesizing https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1074983250836152320
21. the universal decay of collective memory and attention https://twitter.com/C4COMPUTATION/status/1074478234564100096
22. Just watching this closely improves your trigonometric intuition. Several minds blown in the replies particularly re: tangents https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/1071834044369797121?s=21
23. Sex blog traffic on Christmas https://twitter.com/girlonthenet/status/1078959553344098306?s=21
24. Goals scored over time https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1091655820251668481?s=21
25. the effect of incentives https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1088805127992025089?s=21
26. the misunderstanding over the dress, visualized. it's all about perceived context https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1092815110136127490
27. exponential growth https://twitter.com/BenceNanay/status/1070728964489052161
28. the world as 100 people, over the past 200 years https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1086662632587907072
29. Brand value over time https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/1098401761184940032?s=21
30. intuitive design egs https://twitter.com/JoshConstine/status/1103691675136749568
31. City populations over time, absolutely enchanting https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1107552367795412992?s=21
32. The Fence Paradox https://twitter.com/dellannaluca/status/1110738862085558272?s=21
33. If swans were depicted like dinosaurs https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/911291592287367168
34. Diagrammatic comparison between brains of different species https://twitter.com/orbuch/status/1112534748654501889?s=21
35. animated climate data from 1850 - present day https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1112109838060961793?s=21
36. What’s going on while your personalised targeted ad loads https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1116763906716966912?s=21
37. Users over time https://twitter.com/hipcityreg/status/1138935045060800513?s=21
38. The intersection of emails, todos and calendars https://twitter.com/destraynor/status/1143853719135621121?s=21
39. how couples meet https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1149701645070155776
40. employment rate over time
41. grouping items by stage, not type https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1164353809323188224?s=21
42. diagramming your argument https://twitter.com/j_asminewang/status/1166954314226528256?s=21
43. I want this graph for everything https://twitter.com/camhasthoughts/status/1167904076220129282?s=21
44. Moore's law https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1168832625269563393
45. perceptions of probability https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/945581457136898048
46. how good is "good"? https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1049382682893971456
47. Rule of law vs GDP/capita https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1175082525707984896?s=21
48. marathon completion times https://twitter.com/danielgross/status/1177047766909865985?s=21
49. ATMs installed vs bank tellers employed https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1181062074316681216?s=21
50. the trinket economy https://twitter.com/vhranger/status/1191380110659784717
51. the writing process https://twitter.com/sarahdoingthing/status/877018612447313920
52. from anarchy of genesis to dictatorship of shipping https://twitter.com/yak_collective/status/1255370726858776577
53. forecasting is hard https://twitter.com/clcrozier/status/1251148890595708938
54. exploration vs refinement https://twitter.com/destraynor/status/1087398748479733760
55. pathfinding https://twitter.com/round/status/1257263237428506625
56. moral repugnance https://twitter.com/patilindrajeets/status/1253563330746363905
58. spectrum of info packet configs https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1279798483218767877
59. informed simplicity https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1115633791966511109
60. The Innovator’s Dilemma (worth clicking thru for the whole thread) https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1277769126480617475?s=21 https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1277769126480617475
61. Political compass map https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1290757556722216960?s=21 https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1290757556722216960
reposting the first image: insightful visuals

1. improvement vs perceived improvement

I believe it's by @marcdalessio:

https://www.marcdalessio.com/self-portraits-over-the-years-2/
62. evolution of alphabets https://twitter.com/merelwolf/status/1088107521234079744?lang=en
63. tank alignment chart
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