PEGI changed its rules in March. Since June, new games with paid random items (loot boxes, card packs, gacha pulls, prize wheels) get at least PEGI 16. In October PEGI started re-rating existing digital-only games that were PEGI 3, 7 or 12 and have them. More games are expected to change before the end of the month.

EA Sports FC 27 is the first game in the series rated PEGI 16, because of Ultimate Team packs. FC 26 was PEGI 3.

PEGI hasn't said which feature in Pokémon GO counted as a paid random item.

The ESRB said in March it has no plans to do the same. It keeps the age rating based on the game's content and adds an "In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)" label instead.

Germany doesn't use PEGI. It has its own system, USK.

I mapped every major S&P 500 crash since 1973 as a valley. Depth = how far it fell from the old high, width = how long the whole thing took. So the steeper the wall, the faster it moved.

• 2020 was the fastest: −34% in 33 days, back to even in about 5 months
• 2008 was the deepest: −57%, fell for 17 months, then 4 more years to recover
• 2000 fell slowest, grinding down for two and a half years
• 1973 took the longest to come back, about 6 years from the bottom

When you bought makes a huge difference. Buy at the Feb 2020 peak and you were back to even by August. Buy at the Oct 2007 peak and you waited until March 2013. Buy at the March 2000 peak and you didn’t break even until May 2007. Thought this was interestsing...

Which of these did you buy the dip on, and which did you panic sell?

Each white colored pixel should represent 10000 people. Pixels do not stack. For further questions, feel free to ask!

Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century.

In the United Kingdom, things have moved in the opposite direction. Its generation per person peaked in 2003 and has fallen by more than a third since then.

You can see this in the chart, which shows generation per person since 1920. Today, levels are back to where they were in the late 1960s.

Some of that decline is a change in electricity imports, rather than demand: net imports have increased from 1% of electricity demand in 2010 to 9% in 2025. But it’s still true that the UK consumes much less electricity than it used to.

The most common explanation is deindustrialization: as the economy shifted from manufacturing to services, electricity demand fell. That’s part of the explanation, but far from all of it.

Sectoral data from the International Energy Agency confirms that electricity consumption in industry has fallen by one-quarter since 2005 (more if we calculate this per person). But residential and commercial electricity use has fallen by just as much.

Deindustrialization has reduced demand, but improvements in energy efficiency — such as the shift from incandescent to LED lightbulbs and the introduction of efficiency standards for appliances — have played an important role too.

Data sources: Ember (2026); Energy Institute (2026); Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of the UK (2023)

Tools used: Python, OWID Grapher, Figma

Looked at the quantity and price per unit changes of 15 items mentioned in the BuzzFeed article 35 Absolutely INFURIATING Photos That Prove Shrinkflation Is Alive And Well

Sources: Reddit and online searches

Visualization: Meta Muse

GTA 5 came out in September 2013. Take-Two said it had shipped 100 million copies in November 2018, which covers the first 5 years. In May 2026 they reported 230 million.

The numbers include every version: PS3 and Xbox 360, PS4 and Xbox One (2014), PC (2015) and PS5 and Xbox Series (2022). They're sell-in numbers, so copies shipped to stores plus digital sales.

GTA 6 is set to come out on November 19, 2026, 13 years and 2 months after GTA 5. The gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was about 5 years and 5 months.

Pick an era, find a street, or just have a look around Warsaw in 3D

https://warsaw.makscape.com/

What else would you like to see on the map?

Data extracted from the General Social Survey, 1972-2024, gss.norc.org .

Young participants showed declining self-rated health over 52 years; older participants showed improvement.

In France, there is a big divide between those who say "Chocolatine" and the "Pain au Chocolat" partisan to designate a puff pastry with two chocolate bars.

This has been going as far as the French Assembly debating about a law to make the "chocolatine" word official.

With my brother, we used Brigitte, an AI agent, to call bakeries in order to ask them which word they were using, in order to map the actual border.

More interactive data here:

https://lebaguetteindex.fr/chocolatine/

Source: Eurostat, dataset nrg_ind_ren / REN_ELC.

Data: 2025, provisional. Units: % of gross electricity consumption.

The chart shows the three highest and three lowest shares among EU countries. The dashed line marks the EU aggregate of 49.9%. This indicator covers electricity; Eurostat normalises hydro and wind production.

Visualization project: ChartMaker.tools

In 2017 the CFPB got about 6,384 complaints a month about the three bureaus and 14,454 about everyone else. In 2026 through September it was 555,288 and 75,709 (87× and 5×). The bureaus' share went from 31% to 88%, and they have topped all other companies combined every month since November 2021.

Caveats: these are complaints filed, not verified problems; the CFPB doesn't verify every claim and one person can file several. Recent months can still rise a little, since a complaint is published once the company responds or after 15 days.

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints), every complaint the CFPB received from Jan 2017 to Sep 2026, pulled from its public API and counted by the month received. A complaint counts toward the bureaus when the company named is Equifax, Experian or TransUnion. The lines are quarterly averages of complaints a month; the treemap shows the companies named in January–September 2026 complaints.

Tool: Artio for the data pipeline and chart; the chart is SVG drawn in Python. Company logos from Wikimedia Commons.

Link: https://www.artio.so/dataviz/pages/2026-10-22-cfpb-complaints

Hi sub,

I am the creator of a Square Mile, a geography game where players are asked to recognise streets, metro and bus stations, bridges, and landmarks on blank city maps.

After more than 12,000 rounds played, and more than 240,000 items asked and answered (or not), I created Mind Map, a data visualisation that summarises what people know about the world cities.

You can explore the interactive map here: https://www.habibicode.org/mindmap and play a few rounds on your city. The game is free, require no sign up, stores no data besides your answers, and currently is available for 130+ cities.

The dataviz has 3 views:

• Streets: this view shows how well people recognise the street when asked about it. Clicking on a street opens a chart showing you the %age of people that recognise each portion of the street (the game crops the city map, so streets are often asked in segments)
• Metro: this view shows how well people identify different metro stations. Clicking on a station or line opens a detailed view of it.
• Landmarks: shows how well people recognise famous landmarks in the cities.

You can also play with the views on each city:

• Angle: a 3D view of the data where depth = %age answered
• Side: a horizontal bar charts that provides an idea of the average answer %age in a city

And a few more options

Hope you enjoy it!

Sources/data: SitRep INSP. Tool: Claude, python. Website: ebola-tracker.org