The Most Popular Visuals on Voronoi in 2024

In 2024, there were over 3,000 visualizations posted on Voronoi by 100 different data creators.

But which of these data stories were the most popular? What posts saw the most comments from users? And which visualizations got the highest engagement?

Today, we highlight some of the most powerful stories and creators on Voronoi. If any of these visuals pique your curiosity, download the Voronoi app for free to get beautiful data stories served to you, customized by your interests.

Voronoi is all about enabling data creators, so before we get into the most popular posts, let’s take a look at the most prolific creators on the platform.

CREATORS

The Most Prolific Data Creators

Who posted the most on Voronoi in 2024?

Creator Ehsan Soltani published a ranking in December that shows the top 10 creators, by number of posts and number of followers.

There are some familiar names here.

Notable names near the top include: Visual Capitalist, Statista, and Ehsan Soltani himself.

Of course, there is also Visual of the Year runner-up Julie Peasley, and useful primary data sources like USAFacts, IMF, or IEA.

Just outside of the top 10 are other creators worth following such as: Pranav Gavali, NeoMam Studios, Rajesh Palanisamy, Harrison Schell, Perrin Remonté, and Preyash Shah.

MOST VIEWED IN 2024

The Salary Needed to Buy a Home in 50 U.S. Cities

The most popular post of the year on Voronoi was by Visual Capitalist and had 162,000 views:

Since 2020, the average salary Americans need to afford a home has skyrocketed from $59,000 to over $104,000.

This popular 3D map shows the situation in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, where annual salaries required for home ownership range from Cleveland ($58,400) all the way up to San Jose ($469,000).

MOST DISCUSSED in 2024

UN Member States Not Recognized by Other Members

This visualization by Julie Peasley was the most commented on visualization on Voronoi in November, and also took the crown as the most discussed overall in 2024.

Sovereign states can choose who they recognize and have diplomatic relationships with, and it’s clear by this diagram that not everyone recognizes everyone.

Users spoke up, and there are a range of insights, observations, and arguments to be found on the Voronoi app.

MOST LIKED IN 2024

The 12 Most Spoken Languages Globally

The most liked post in 2024 was from Visual Capitalist, and it shows the most spoken languages globally as of 2023.

Simple and with very clear takeaways that everyone can relate to, it’s no wonder why this visualization got so much attention.

English takes the cake with 1.5 billion speakers and Mandarin also clocks in with over 1 billion speakers. But it’s really the rest of the list that probably caught the eyes of most people: Urdu, Standard Arabic, Bengali, and Indonesian all crack the ranking.

VISUAL OF THE YEAR

The Raw Materials in Your Laptop

It’s worth highlighting our Visual of the Year award winner here again, since users crowned this visual by Toonitopia for the top spot.

Speaking of visuals that everyone can relate to, there’s a reason this graphic resonated in what turned out to be a very tight race.

Every day we use technological devices like laptops and smartphones which are designed to be simple to use. However, underneath the surface is a complex cluster of materials and electronics that keeps everything working.

That’s why visuals like this hit home: they help us understand something that we all know is inherently more complex, but we’ve never took the time to think about.

BONUS ROUND

Voronoi: Data Drop 2024

Did you know that 18% of data stories on Voronoi were maps? Or that 0.6% were voronoi diagrams?

We break down one full year of Voronoi in our Data Drop 2024 video below:

Download Voronoi for free below, and get access to the many thousands of data-driven stories we expect to see in 2025!