WorldMapper
I’m waiting anxiously for the new Tufte book to come out. If you don’t already have them, you should go get the Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations. They will change how you think about and present data.
In the meantime, here’s a Tuftian map visualization project called WorldMapper, where they allocate space by all sorts of different factors, including things like:
Land mass - This is the normal map of the world, though it may look odd if you’re used to the Euro-centric Mercator projection.
Population in 1 AD - “The territories that now encompass the Ganges, Tigris, Yangtze, Nile and Po rivers were the most populous.”
Population in 2050 - “62% of the people will live in Africa, Southern Asia and Eastern Asia - numerically this is the same as if all the world’s current population lived just in these regions.”
Net out-tourism - Fun fact: Germans leave Germany five times as often as non-Germans visit Germany.
Aircraft flights - America dominates.
(via O’Reilly Radar)
