More Data Visualization Examples to Bookmark — DataViz Weekly
DataViz Weekly is back with more data visualization examples. As usual, we have been tracking what the web has to offer and singling out some of the most memorable projects we came across.
Dive into the four below:
- Afterlife beliefs by age — The Pudding
- U.S. tariff exposure across Canada — School of Cities
- Population pyramids from 1950 to 2100 — Karim Douïeb
- American social life in 1995 and 2026 — Data for Progress
Afterlife Beliefs by Age
Most religions teach that something follows death, from heaven and hell to rebirth. In a 2025 Pew Research Center study, belief in life after death ranged from 38% of adults in Sweden to 85% in Indonesia.
Alvin Chang recast answers about the afterlife from a global survey as a room you can walk through. It holds 1,500 respondents from 23 countries, each asked twice, about 18 months apart. You enter through one of three doors, marked no, not sure, and yes, and start among those who gave that answer. Those who said no stand on the left, the unsure in the middle, and believers on the right. The youngest are at the front. Scrolling carries you past older and older people toward a light at the back. Labels over the figures nearby list details such as age, gender, and faith.
A dot plot in the corner maps the whole crowd and marks your place in it. Along the way, the figures and dots switch colors to show responses to other questions, such as how important religion is in daily life. Now and then, line charts appear at the bottom with more detail by age group. An explore mode lets you choose a question from a list and toggle between the 2022–23 and 2024 responses.
👉 Step into the room on The Pudding.
U.S. Tariff Exposure Across Canada
In 2024, about three-quarters of Canada’s goods exports went to the United States. Since 2025, the U.S. has placed tariffs on a growing list of Canadian products.
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The School of Cities at the University of Toronto estimated how many local businesses and jobs could be directly exposed to those tariffs. A choropleth map lays out the results by neighborhood or by municipality. Yellow marks the lowest shares, with orange, red, and magenta for higher ones. A menu switches between all affected goods and single categories such as steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, or energy. The color breaks adjust with each pick. Exposure can be measured in businesses, in employees by workplace, or in employees by place of residence. Each comes as a percentage or a total, and totals turn the view into a bubble map with circles sized by count. Hovering over a spot brings up its value.
A companion page ranks 41 metropolitan areas in a bar chart. The project first went online in October 2025, and its estimates were last updated on September 28, 2026.
👉 Explore the tool on Mapping Tariffs, by Muhammad Khalis Bin Samion, Jeff Allen, Yihoi Jung, Tara Vinodrai, and Karen Chapple.
Population Pyramids From 1950 to 2100
The population pyramid dates back to the 1870s. Its name came from the shape most countries had back then. In much of the world, falling birth rates and longer lives have since squared it off.
Karim Douïeb turned the population pyramid on its side and set it in motion from 1950 to 2100. Age runs along the bottom, and a single curve gives the percentage of people at each age, with men and women counted together. Every year gets one such curve. As the animation runs, they stack one behind another along a time axis and build a 3D surface, shaded from blue to red. For the world, the steep early slopes give way to a nearly level line by the end of the century.
A 2D switch collapses the stack into a single line chart. To pick a country, drag the small globe until its crosshair sits on it. Region names under the title step back out to wider areas, and a slider moves through time.
👉 Check out Pyramid Scheme on Karim Douïeb’s klet.app.
American Social Life in 1995 and 2026
We’ve just released AnyChart JS 9.0.0 with a new dumbbell chart type, so we could not resist featuring one in action. This example is about American social life. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General warned of an epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
Data for Progress asked 1,098 U.S. adults how often they had done a range of everyday activities in the past year. It then compared the answers with a 1995 survey that asked the same questions. A single dumbbell chart holds the comparison. Its 20 rows each give the share of adults who did an activity at least once, sorted by the 1995 figure. A dark navy dot marks that year and a light blue one 2026, with a gray line in between.
In most cases, the blue dot sits to the left of the navy one. Attending a class or seminar fell the most, from 54% to 32%, and entertaining at home dropped from 88% to 67%. Five rows go the other way, among them video games, exercise classes, and pop or rock concerts. Internet use leaps to 98%, up from 8%, nearly the full width of the axis.
👉 Take a look at the analysis on the Data for Progress website.
That brings this installment of DataViz Weekly to a close. The series is the AnyChart blog’s running showcase of data visualization examples spotted on the web. Each is summed up in a few paragraphs, with the source a click away. Bookmark the ones worth keeping, and come back for the next batch of examples:
Originally published at https://www.anychart.com on October 9, 2026.
