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While the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest are both impressive features on Earth, they are nothing next to Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons, their epic Martian counterparts. Even more extraordinary, the overall difference between the highest and lowest point on Mars is 19 miles (31 km), whereas just 12 miles (20 km) separates the summit of Mount Everest from the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Earth. This week’s map comes to us from Reddit user /hellofromthemoon, who carefully laid out the terrain of Mars in awesome detail....

Snapchat, however, has beaten the odds. The company’s stock has recently shot up during the COVID-19 pandemic, a bright spot in a decade of highs and lows. The graphic above is a high level look at Snapchat’s 10-year history, including user growth and financials. Snapchat’s wild ride from start-up to massive success is well documented, so we’ll focus on key elements of story—product design, the Facebook rivalry—and look at how the company is doing today now that the hype surrounding the app has died down....

In the above infographic from Raconteur, we can take a closer look at how global advertising spend has evolved over recent decades across the media sphere. The Media Landscape Shapes the Ad World In advertising, dollars go where the eyeballs are. Recently, all eyes have been on the digital realm—a trend that coincided with the disastrous fall of the print industry. As people mass-migrated to digital platforms in the 2010s, marketers were hot on their heels, and the fall of print media began....

Will a Robot Take Your Job? The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Are you ready to hand your job over to R2D2? A recent study by the Mckinsey Global Institute forecasts up to 800 million workers worldwide could lose their jobs to automation by 2030. Industrial machine operators, administrators, and service workers will be the first to take a hit. Meanwhile, poorer countries with lower investment in tech are less likely to feel the pinch....

As the number of new cases continues to surge in parts of the world, numbers are beginning to decline in others as public health officials and governments tirelessly work to slow the contagion and reach of the virus. The potent combination of trip cancellations and country-specific restrictions on international flights has had a staggering impact on the $880 billion global airline industry. Today’s visualization highlights data from the OAG Aviation Worldwide, which tracks how global flight capacity differs from last year’s numbers....

At first glance, the business world may seem quite static. The biggest companies today – ones like Apple, Walmart, or Exxon Mobil – will likely also be some of the biggest companies tomorrow. Fast forward a week, a month, or a year, and odds are that they will still be at the top of the food chain. But fast forward any further, and those odds change considerably. In a decade, there just has to be one bad strategic decision, a missed trend, or a colossal managerial mistake, and you have the next Kodak, Blockbuster, or Sears....

Since 1980, college tuition and fees are up 1,200%, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items has risen by only 236%. The Average Cost of College Over Time Back in 1980, it cost $1,856 to attend a degree-granting public school in the U.S., and $10,227 to attend a private school after adjusting for inflation. Since then, the figures have skyrocketed. Here’s how college tuition and the CPI have both changed since 1980: Source: National Center for Education Statistics, U....

Of course, that growth has been far from uniform, and the ranking of the world’s most populous countries continues to evolve. Using the latest data available from the United Nations, we’ve looked at which countries have the largest share of the planet’s eight billion people. The Top 10 Most Populous Countries Here are the countries shown above, including how much they’ve grown over the past 50 years: The numbers above highlight the extreme variance in growth for these world’s most populous countries....

But if you ditch the complexity and nuance surrounding current events, we can get a good gauge by asking a simple and direct question to people: are things going in the right direction? Today’s data comes from the What Worries the World Report by Ipsos Public Affairs. It sums up responses from 18,110 people in 25 different countries on whether things are going in the “right direction” or “wrong direction” in their particular country....

One of the most important questions facing a business of any size is: why do your customers leave? It doesn’t matter if you are a part of a Fortune 500 firm, or if you are a local plumber that works out of a van. This question should be important to you, because it has a huge impact on your livelihood. Oddly enough, it turns out the answer to the question could be deceivingly simple....

Figurative speech plays an important role in our ability to communicate with one another. It helps create compelling narratives, and evoke emotion in readers. With this in mind, this periodic table graphic by Visual Communication Guy groups the 40 different figures of speech into two distinct categories—schemes and tropes. What’s the difference between the two, and how can they help improve your writing? Types of Schemes In linguistics, a scheme is language that plays with sentence structure to make a sentence smoother, or even more persuasive, using syntax, word order, or sounds....

Instead, even as we’ve discovered in our planning for the launch of our new “coffee table” book of infographics, it requires an incredible combination of vision, deliberation, teamwork, and project management expertise to accomplish something that’s never been done before. And even if you are lucky enough to nail many of those things, external factors can be just as deadly. Getting a Launch Right Today’s infographic comes from To The New, and it details 10 key points to consider before any new product launch....

Silver is best known for having extraordinary properties that have made it an effective monetary metal for thousands of years. Currency buffs all know the metal as being rare, durable, fungible, malleable, ductile, and divisible, which match the properties of money agreed on by most economists. Silver, of course, has been used by civilizations ranging from Ancient Rome to the United States for monetary purposes. However, these monetary uses are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of silver’s overall utility....

Calculating the Lifetime Value of a Customer What is one customer worth to a business, and what should a business be willing to pay to acquire the said customer? It all comes down to a concept called “customer lifetime value”, which is used to describe the approximate value of one customer to a business. It is essentially the average amount of money made over the lifespan of an average customer, discounted by future cash flows....

While it’s hard to know what this newest generation of investors will do once the funds hit their accounts, there is no shortage of speculation about the habits and attitudes that will characterize their collective approach to wealth management as they age. Surveying Millennial Investors Today’s infographic is the result of a partnership with our friends at Morning Brew, a daily business briefing newsletter that skews towards a millennial audience....

How Bitcoin is Changing the Face of Non-Profits Before, we have covered how Bitcoin will disrupt the banking and finance sectors. However, that is only one consequence of the emergence of cryptocurrencies and the public ledger system known as the blockchain. Non-profits and charities accepting bitcoins are already benefiting. These organizations typically rely on donations to survive, by accepting bitcoin donations opens them up to new opportunities that are otherwise not possible....

Today, new innovations in tech are continuing to shape the consumer credit industry – and with U.S. consumer debt sitting at $13 trillion, these changes could play a role in impacting how consumers access credit both today and in the future. The Modern Credit Landscape Today’s infographic comes to us from Equifax, and it gives a snapshot of modern credit as well as a perspective on how new technologies such as trended and alternative data are changing the landscape....

At its height, the Roman Empire spanned across 5,000,000 km² with 70 million people within its borders. Yet, despite massive amounts of riches and its fearsome legionaries, Rome slowly but surely self-destructed. While there are many complex factors involved in this including the debasement the empire’s currency, this collapse set the stage for the next cycle. The Byzantines would take over in the East, and centuries later the Holy Roman Empire eventually would emerge in the West....

The Narwhal Club: Home to Canada’s $1 Billion Dollar Tech Startups Created by Garibaldi Capital Advisors and Visual Capitalist October 2015 Update: The Narwhal Club is going strong with plenty of recent news concerning prominent Canadian startups. Working with Brent Holliday from Garibaldi Capital Advisors, we got the latest scoop on the sector and have updated the narwhal list accordingly. The most recent notable event occurred in the summer of 2015, when Markus Frind sold his 100% owned Plentyoffish....

Transit style maps are sort of a “rite of passage” for any upstart information designer. People tend to be obsessed with them, and for good reason. What the maps lack in attention to fine details, they make up in their sheer ease of use, organization, and ability to reduce complex geography to simple, elegant shapes. They show the big picture in way that’s easy to follow, even for seemingly unrelated topics like the extensive road network of the Roman Empire....