Category Archives: World Map

World Map Of Touristyness

May 23, 2010

Word Map Of Touristyness

Great places-to-avoid heatmap using distribution of photos on Panoramio. Nice idea! By BlueMoon.ee

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Because Every Country Is The Best At Something

May 19, 2010

International Number Ones: Because Every Country Is The Best At Something
International number ones

Data: http://bit.ly/IntNoOnes

Note: Roll over the main image to see the countries.

Review the changes we’ve made to this image

DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Also posted in Data Journalism |
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Four Infographic Morsels 3

December 14, 2009

Earth In Space
Volume Of Living Space On Earth
Thanks to Steve Haddock for that one. Apparently this map is secreted on Google Earth somewhere. Can anybody find a link for it? Thanks!

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Great Visualizers: Michael Paukner

September 28, 2009

I’m really loving this guy’s visualization style. And the esoteric subjects too. I’ve got a bunch of esoteria visualized in my book. Sadly, for me, I think Michael does a better job.

The Great Circle

The Great Circle by Michael Paukner
Spook! Many of the ancient ‘wonders of the world’ are apparently on the same latitude.

Precession

Precession by Michael Paukner
A key idea in the current Mayan 2012 end-of-the-world meme is that December 21st, 2012 coincides with the end of the Precession of the Equinox, a 26,000 galactic cycle. Hmmmmmm…

Mayan Interdimension Starmap

Mayan Interdimensional StarMap by Michael Paukner
What would a Monday morning be without some Mayan mind mank?

Check out his Photostream on Flickr. Let me know if you find any other cool visualizers.

Also posted in Esoteria, Great Visualizers, InfoVisualisation, Self |
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Surface Area Required To Solar Power The World

September 3, 2009

Surface area required to solar power the world

According to the United Nations 170,000 square kilometers of forest is destroyed each year. If we constructed solar farms at the same rate, we would be finished in 3 years.

New: I did a little revisioning, adding another power source we possibly haven’t considered.

From LandArtGenerator.org. Image here. Science here.

[Via Cool Infographics]

Also posted in Environment, Political, Sustainability |
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Swine Flu Latest: Visualized!

September 1, 2009

With the help of the excellent Guardian Datastore, we’ve been tracking Swine Flu (“novel H1N1 virus”) as it creeps across the globe and starts to feeds into the autumnal ‘flu season. There are some surprising results.

Is the US about to face a pandemic?

The USA still has the most cases in the world. The America media are starting to pump out alarming headlines. “200,000 deaths!”. Here are the current figures.

Swine Flu: Countries with most cases Sep 2009
But when you factor in population sizes, the USA disappears off the map. (It’s actually 15th in the world)

Swine Flu: Most Infected Countries Sep 2009
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Also posted in Comparison Chart, Data Journalism, Disease, Health, News |
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Walled World

August 8, 2009

Mind-opening viz from Td Architects in Holland. I didn’t know about the Schengen ‘Wall’.

Td Architects have run a nice side-line in information visualizations for several years. I don’t always connect with their visual style. But they’ve created some really thought provoking images. Unfortunately, they’re locked behind the walls of a very-hard-to-navigate website. Get an RSS feed dudes!

(You can find them on their homepage listed under ‘SNOGs’ (?). The space debris one is cool. Let me know any other good ones you find.)

Also posted in Data Visualisation, Political |
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