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Data & Visualisation Fun Facts

  • The world generates over 328 million terabytes of data daily. Source
  • Data scientist is consistently one of the Best Jobs in America. Source
  • 80–90% of the world’s data is unstructured, including text, images, and video. Source
  • Netflix saves $1 billion a year using data science to personalize recommendations. Source
  • The term “data science” became popular in the late 1990s. Source
  • Florence Nightingale: Data Pioneer – During the Crimean War, she used polar area diagrams to show most soldier deaths were from poor hygiene, not battle wounds. Source
  • John Snow & Cholera Mapping – In 1854, he mapped cholera cases in London to identify a contaminated water pump as the outbreak source. Source
  • COVID-19 Dashboards – Johns Hopkins University created interactive dashboards tracking infections, deaths, and vaccinations worldwide in real-time. Source
  • Visualizing Historical Pandemics – Visualization has been used to predict and control epidemics, including the 1918 influenza and Ebola outbreaks. Source
  • William Playfair – Invented the line chart, bar chart, and pie chart, foundational tools of modern data visualization. Source