r/Infographics

I was looking into the rural/urban political divide and wanted to visualize the actual geographical realities of living in sparsely populated areas.

I used the NHTSA FARS database (fatal accident reporting) as a proxy for general emergency response times (EMS, police), plotted against US Census population density estimates.

As you might expect, the time it takes for an ambulance (and by extension police) to arrive blows up as population density decreases, which can help explain the conservative lean of rural voters.

I did a much deeper dive on how this geographical isolation ties into the Electoral College and national politics here: https://samholmes285.substack.com/p/abandoning-the-electoral-college

An infographic featuring information about some of the world's most controversial flags.

https://www.lloydslist.com/one-hundred-container-ports-2025 (Top 100 included)

China exports goods worth 73% more than the United States: $3.77T versus $2.18T.

China's $940B in electrical machinery exports alone nearly matches half of all US global exports, underscoring its manufacturing dominance.

China's leading categories are manufactured goods shipped and embedded into economies worldwide.

This advantage isn’t easily undone; physical supply chain dominance takes decades to reverse. You can’t fix that with dollars or better software.

Full trade comparison of both countries here: https://www.vizmaya.fyi/story/the-century-trade-story

Source: http://english.customs.gov.cn/Statics/dbe2c034-de23-4794-83ce-74d1a2bf14e6.html,

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports-by-category

Figures are taken directly from the OECD website: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/average-annual-wages.html

This should be more accurate than a post from earlier today.

Key Takeaways:

Turkmenistan and Montenegro withdraw more freshwater per person than any other countries in the world.

Agriculture accounts for roughly 70% of global freshwater withdrawals.

The U.S. ranks fifth globally, driven partly by industrial activity and power generation.

https://panopsik.com/

Eight days ago, I posted this project Panopsik here and got some of the most useful feedback I've received since starting it. Thank you genuinely. The kind of criticism this sub gave would cost serious money from a consultant and you gave it for free.

I want to address the main points directly rather than just saying "we listened."

Basically...  you were right on almost everything. The event points were showing too little to be actionable, the intelligence assessments were AI-generated noise that wouldn't survive five seconds with a real analyst, and the related articles were embarrassingly off-topic. These have been the priority this week.

What's changed:

• Added a landing page.
• Broke down the main dashboard into multiple lighter dashboards.
• Fixed a mountain of imperfections.
• Added the infrastructure layer.
• Currently in the process of allowing users to create their own dashboards depending on what information they want.

What's new:

You can now create an account. This lets you save searches, set alert thresholds for specific regions, and track how situations develop over time rather than getting a snapshot. It also means we can start understanding how people actually use this, which will drive what we fix next.

Still rough: clustering confidence on lower-tier sources, multilingual support, Southeast Asia coverage. We know.

If you tested it last week and wrote it off... fair. Come back and tell us if it's any better. If you haven't looked yet, now's a better time than eight days ago.