From antique cartography to personalized logs, lots of beautiful connections mapped out this week! We also found visualizations that make sense of mythological relationships, suss out the virality of content, and a font like none other.

The title says it all, but explains nothing. Hold on to your hats and click through.

In an increasingly mobile world, we see a lot of exciting 3rd party apps that capitalize on our need to do more. Here are a few of designer Lane Kinkade’s personal favorite mobile apps.

In this graphic, we look at five popular social networks from around the globe. The percentages indicate how much of a country’s population is actively using the service, illustrating that they are hefty competition for even the most popular of America’s homegrown platforms.

Opinions are like social media presences: everybody’s got one. With this graphic, we look at two sites that contain a combined 51 million user reviews.

This week’s roundup is a good reminder of how visualizations add to the stories that raw data tells. From carbon emissions to Batman, this crop of data visualizations lead us to some astonishing insights

In this Geosocial Universe 3.0 snackable, we visualize how many of the top 10,000 websites are integrated with major social platforms.

Where do people checkin in your town? What do people name their dogs in New York City? This edition of The Graphic Account answers all these questions and more.

According to a recent study by the National Retail Federation, Valentine’s Day is a $18.6 billion industry. Here’s Valentine’s Day by the numbers… and GIFs.

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