Best Visualizations of June on the Voronoi App

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June 28, 2024

At the end of 2023, we publicly launched Voronoi, our free new data discovery app!

The initial response from both users and creators has been incredible. We now have millions of in-app views, and there are already more than 1,500 interesting visualizations to discover, many of which will never be published on Visual Capitalist.

For that reason, we’ve chosen to highlight some of the most popular visualizations and creators from June in this roundup. To see them and many others, make sure to download the app!

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Let’s take a look at a popular creator worth highlighting, a top “Editor’s Pick” of the month, and also the most popular and most commented on visuals.

POPULAR CREATOR Utility

Visual Capitalist isn’t the only creator on the Voronoi app.

Instead, it features incredible data-driven charts and stories from many of the world’s best creators, like Utility.

Utility has been one of the most followed and popular creators in the last two months, covering a wide range of topics like:

Changes in millionaire populations over the last decade, by country Poll results on if U.S. consumers will buy Chinese cars The fast food brands that consumers see as the “fanciest” How many people in the U.S. live in walkable neighborhoods

Make sure to follow Utility on Voronoi today to see many charts, maps, and visualizations on a wide range of exciting topics.

View all visuals from Utility on Voronoi today.

MOST VIEWED Mapped: The Income Needed to be Comfortable, by U.S. State

How much money does one person need to take home each year, to feel “comfortable” financially?

This map from Visual Capitalist looks at numbers by U.S. state, taking into account household expenses, discretionary spending, saving and investing, and other factors.

The state with the highest income needed to live comfortably is Massachusetts ($116k/year), while West Virginia was the cheapest ($79k/year). There are many little surprises in the data, however, that make this one interesting.

Get the data behind this visual on Voronoi today.

EDITOR’S PICK Internet Satellite Companies Compared

One of the recent picks in our Editor’s Pick feed on the app is from creator Made Visual, and it shows constellations of satellites providing internet access.

This visual really showcases SpaceX’s

Charting the Next Generation of Internet

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May 13, 2024 Graphics & Design Could Tomorrow’s Internet be Streamed from Space?

In 2023, 2.6 billion people could not access the internet. Today, companies worldwide are looking to innovative technology to ensure more people are online at the speed of today’s technology. 

Could satellite internet provide the solution?  

In collaboration with MSCI, we embarked on a journey to explore whether tomorrow’s internet could be streamed from space. 

Satellite Internet’s Potential Customer Base

Millions of people live in rural communities or mobile homes, and many spend much of their lives at sea or have no fixed abode. So, they cannot access the internet simply because the technology is unavailable. 

Satellite internet gives these communities access to the internet without requiring a fixed location. Consequently, the volume of people who could get online using satellite internet is significant:

AreaPotential Subscribers Households Without Internet Access600,000,000 RVs 11,000,000 Recreational Boats8,500,000 Ships100,000 Commercial Aircraft25,000 Advances in Satellite Technology

Satellite internet is not a new concept. However, it has only recently been that roadblocks around cost and long turnaround times have been overcome.

NASA’s space shuttle, until it was retired in 2011, was the only reusable means of transporting crew and cargo into orbit. It cost over $1.5 billion and took an average of 252 days to launch and refurbish. 

In stark contrast, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 can now launch objects into orbit and maintain them at a fraction of the time and cost, less than 1% of the space shuttle’s cost.

Average Rocket Turnaround TimeAverage Launch/Refurbishment Cost Falcon 9*21 days $1,000,000 Space Shuttle252 days$1,500,000,000 (approximately)

Satellites are now deployed 300 miles in low Earth orbit (LEO) rather than 22,000 miles above Earth in Geostationary Orbit (GEO), previously the typical satellite deployment altitude.

What this means for the consumer is that satellite internet streamed from LEO has a latency of 40 ms, which is an optimal internet connection. Especially when compared to the 700 ms stream latency experienced with satellite internet streamed from GEO. 

What Would it Take to Build a Satellite Internet?

SpaceX, the private company that operates Starlink, currently has 4,500 satellites. However, the