18 Surprising Data Visualizations in Your Everyday Life

We encounter data visualizations every day of our lives without even realizing it. The bars on the screen of your treadmill, the subway map you use to get to work, the bathroom scale you hop on to gauge your weight loss success – these are all subtle ways visualizations have crept into your life. This is probably a testament to their simplicity and effectiveness!

Data visualizations have become so ingrained in our daily routines, we decided to remind you of the surprisingly sneaky ones you can’t get through the day without:

1) Uber requests

2) Subway maps

3) Bus schedules

4) Speedometers

5) Calendars

6) Clocks

7) Timers

8) Weather maps

9) Thermometers

10) Audio levels

11) Player stats

12) Gametime

13) Workout machines

14) Fitness trackers

15) Bathroom scales

16) Grading on a curve

17) Textbooks

18) Alcohol fermentation 

Did we miss any classic daily data visualizations? Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments below. If you have data you’d like to visualize, Infogram makes it easy to design beautiful charts and infographics in minutes. See for yourself!