100X Research is a small data-visualization publication. Each piece takes one question about how the world is changing, finds the numbers that speak to it, and lets a few careful charts carry the argument. No dashboards, no live tickers, no pretense of omniscience. Just an attempt to understand the world through numbers.
The topics are deliberately broad, water tables, satellites in orbit, what a car weighs now, because the method travels. Find a real measure, plot it honestly, and say what it does and does not show.
Right now most figures here are illustrative, plausible stand-ins while the underlying datasets are built out. Anything fabricated is labeled as such in the chart caption. As each piece gets its real data, the label comes off. Sources are named when the numbers are real.
The culture-and-curiosities companion to this project, where the numbers get to be fun: hip-hop producer tags, pop’s hidden hitmakers, whether China really loves fireworks. It lives at damnedstats.100xresearch.org.