Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1 trillion trees by 2030. Bloomberg uses small dots to show how much more is left to achieve the target amount. The gray dots are what still needs to be planted. It’s kind of a lot, but fingers crossed. Tags: Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees ..read more

The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists with various statistics. For example, what cities in the United Kingdom have the most people on benefits? A Google Earth shot pans to the different cities as text-to-speech narrates. A good number of their videos have gained popularity (or the TikTok algorithms are pushing novelty). And the account recently subbed text-to-speech for a song format, which I think uses TikTok’s AI song feature? Just watch: It’s really corny, but we might also be seeing the beginning of something. Tags: AI, generative ..read more

In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay. These charts show the shift and the sweet release of retirement. Read More ..read more

Knowing the path can help you delegate. Knowing the steps makes it easier to help the rest of your team. Knowing what’s next can help you work through a tedious step, because you know it’ll be worth it. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides ..read more

A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow your mind and change the way you see the world. Tags: humor, xkcd ..read more

Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the increasing number of protests on college campuses over the past few weeks. A set of maps show the locations, and a set of packed-circle charts show the increase of three weeks. Larger circles indicate larger crowd size. Darker yellow and black border indicate police presence. Tags: college, protest, Washington Post ..read more

Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data from Hockey Reference. As someone who knows next to nothing about hockey, except the bits I picked up while living in Buffalo, I’m surprised that the distribution is so far north, but it makes sense. Tags: birth, NHL ..read more

Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding Train, updated his book The Nature of Code. The original version from 2012 focused on Processing. The new version uses p5.js, while still focusing on “understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world.” You can find the free-to-read online version here. Tags: Daniel Shiffman ..read more

The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They would string together the sketches to make a flipbook to see where a single line or a circle would end up. They published the results: Every shape devolved into a scribble, which I feel is a metaphor for information on the internet. They also ran a sidequest that tested anonymity and the tendency to draw inappropriate things online. While the results were underwhelming, I appreciate the effort to see how many times a phallic sketch appears. Four times out of several thousand. See also the Aaron Koblin works — a collaborati ..read more

Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South China Morning Post, Kaliz Lee and Davies Christian Surya describe the ban and the scale of the waste. It’s a lot of plastic. Tags: garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post ..read more