DataViz Battle for the month of April 2019

Visualize the April Fool's Prank

On April 1st, many Reddit users created a new post in the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit with just the word Data in it.

During the day many redditors — sometimes the same users who created the post iself — replied with comments mentioning just the word Data.


There are 567 posts in the dataset.

Colored Y-axis ticks signal that the post contained an image.

You can order the data by one of these criteria:

  • Occurrences of the word Data in the post
  • Number of comments in the post
  • Upvotes received by the post
  • Percentage of upvotes received by the post
Select the first posts.
Click on a y-axis label tick to visit original post on r/dataisbeautiful.
Hover on a bar to see the image included in the post.