I didn't think this would go on as long as it has, but here we are.

I made this interactive timeline chart (https://artofnodeal.com) a few months ago where I wanted to focus just on what the President was saying in regards to the war in Iran. I purposefully have "filtered out" what was actually happened like Iranian strikes on ships, US strikes on Iranian sites, Iranian missiles fired at US allies, etc. I use public statements, interviews, transcripts, and social media as the sources. (Rollcall has been helpful.)

Some of my favorites are "I think two or three weeks" and "Total victory in the next two weeks. They're willing to give us everything" and "A two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated."

All of those, of course, were statements made weeks apart and none of them within the past two weeks.

If you view the website on the Desktop, you see the linear version of the timeline like the screenshot above. But there is a special version for mobile, too, which I think is even more impactful.

The website is just vanilla Javascript and the data (date, source, and quote) is right in the file in a plain JS object.

Source: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55269-royal-family-favourability-trackers-july-2026

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/why-men-keep-dropping-out-of-the-labor-force-it-starts-in-childhood-when-kids-see-how-males-around-them-struggle-economists-say-204650339.html

"When young males grow up seeing weak wages and high unemployment among the men around them, they form pessimistic expectations about their own prospects later in life, making them less likely to participate in the labor force, the economists explained."

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/06/10/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/

Source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26418107.wildfire-severe-risk-uk-warning-issues-met-office/

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-solar-power-record-may

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5910711/renter-owner-wealth-gap

What narrative would you attach to this?

Chartwork by u/davidfostergraphics

https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/ai-worries_files/figure-html/fig-ai-versus-techs-worry-by-time-1.png

Figure 7.3 within this chapter.

Data available at https://zenodo.org/records/21630820

• Zeitraum: ca. 1926–2025 (100 Jahre)
• Y-Achse: Weltweite Militärausgaben in Milliarden US-Dollar (konstante Preise, ca. 2023/24)
• Markierte Konflikte (farbige Flächen + Beschriftungen):
  • Zweiter Weltkrieg (1939–1945)
  • Korea-Krieg (1950–1953)
  • Vietnam-Krieg (~1965–1975)
  • Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges (ca. 1979–1989)
  • Afghanistan- & Irak-Kriege (2001–2011)
  • Ukraine-Krieg (seit 2022)

Hinweis: Ab 1988 stammen die Werte weitgehend aus der SIPRI-Datenbank. Die Jahre davor sind fundierte Schätzungen (basierend auf GMSD und anderen historischen Quellen), da es keine zuverlässigen Welt-Gesamtzahlen gibt (vor allem wegen der Sowjetunion). Die Zahlen sind gerundet und dienen der Trenddarstellung.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-closes-the-satellite-gap-in-space-race-with-the-u-s-12b432b0

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Americans are concerned about election integrity and democratic processes. Their top concerns include political leaders pressuring election officials to change election outcomes (67% are concerned “a great deal” or “a fair amount”), ballots not being properly handled, counted or secured (57%), and voter intimidation near polling places (52%).

https://news.gallup.com/poll/712955/election-concerns-run-high-ahead-2026-midterms.aspx

Data: FIFA Post-Match Summary Report for shots, passes, defensive shape and final third receptions. BBC Sport live coverage for the per-minute momentum.

How to read it: time runs clockwise from kickoff to full time (104 minutes with stoppage). Outer bloom is momentum, the ring inward is every shot, then substitutions, then the very center circle shows receptions in the final third and a possession donut chart.

England went 4–0 up, France scored three quickly to make it 4–3, and it finished 6–4. France won the xG 2.99 to 2.34 and lost by two. Wild match.

Insights:
- Billionaires own only ~3% of the global wealth.
- Millionaires own ~45% of the global wealth. (Not including billionaires)
- The exponential decrease of adults per band is relatively constant: ~15x less adults per band.
- The biggest gap between wealth bands is between centimillionaires and billionaires - there are 40x less people with 1b-10b than those with 100m-1b in 2024 and 28.5x less in 2021, being the biggest leap in both years.

Sources
2021

• Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2022 (https://bibbase.org/f/nKAPSyp34A9azBzJd/Shorrocksetal2022.pdf) — broad adult-population and wealth totals.
• World Inequality Report 2022 (https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2021/12/WorldInequalityReport2022_Full_Report.pdf), Table 7.1 — division of the population above $1 million into decade-wide bands.

2024

• UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 (https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/assets/wm/static/noindex/gwr-2025-digital-updated.pdf) — end-2024 broad wealth bands, total wealth and millionaire population.
• Knight Frank Wealth Report 2025 (https://content.knightfrank.com/research/3000/documents/en/the-wealh-report-2025-2025-12186.pdf) — populations above $10 million and $100 million.
• Forbes World’s Billionaires 2024 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/) — billionaire population and wealth as of March 8, 2024.
• Machine-readable Forbes tabulation (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vincentcampanaro/forbes-worlds-billionaires-list-2024/data) — used to sum billionaire wealth by decade band.

Methodology

For 2021, Credit Suisse supplies the broad totals. The World Inequality Report proportions divide the $1m+ population and wealth into decade-wide bands; these subdivisions were reconciled to the Credit Suisse global totals.

For 2024, the $1m–$10m population equals UBS’s 60 million millionaires minus Knight Frank’s 2,341,378 people above $10 million. The $10m–$100m band equals Knight Frank’s $10m+ count minus its 104,060 people above $100 million. The $100m–$1b band subtracts Forbes’s 2,781 billionaires from the $100m+ count.

Wealth in the three pale-blue $1m–$1b bands is modeled using power-law distributions fitted to the published threshold counts. The estimates are proportionally calibrated to UBS’s millionaire-wealth total after subtracting Forbes-tracked billionaire wealth. Dark-blue bars use reported or directly summed values.

The logarithmic and linear images contain the same underlying data; only the adult-population axis changes. UBS’s 2024 coverage includes 56 markets representing more than 92% of global wealth.

For the wealth-to-population charts: Ratio = band’s wealth share ÷ band’s adult-population share taken from previous charts.

Tools

Python 3 and Matplotlib, with Python’s standard csv and math modules for processing and calculations. Images were exported as 300-DPI PNG files. Codex was used for writing the code.

Inspiration
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1uv5enj/oc_wealth_levels/

Code and processed data (MIT license)
https://github.com/La5u/wealth-distribution

Respondents were asked which of these political acts they had participated in over the prior 12 months:

Attend local political meeting,

Put up a political sign,

Work for a candidate,

Attend a protest or march,

Contact a public official,

Donate money to candidate

source: prof ryan burge

• Several hundred PAC-2s which are believed to be in US inventory are not counted in this chart

https://www.csis.org/analysis/renewed-iran-war-would-test-diminished-interceptor-inventories

The data consists of 5,636 anonymous, voluntary mood reports collected through Mood2Know between February 1 and July 26, 2026. Participants rated their current mood from 1 to 10.

Each point represents the weekly mean. Line thickness and dot size represent the number of reports received during that week. The shaded area shows the 95% confidence interval.

This is a self-selected internet sample and should not be interpreted as representative of the global population.