Tagged: infographics
Oil Tweaked Map
A very telling proportional map of countries with oil. I guess oil has such a big impact on our economy because we have such a small population because we don’t have all that much of it.
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World Urban Populations
The Guardian has a short article on the urbanisation of the world population, nothing I haven’t heard before but they also have an attached PDF of the Urban World with some surprising numbers. It shows countries by percentage of population living in cities and the population of the largest cities: Except for the UK (90) […]
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Oakland Crimes
Another beautiful map from the guys at Stamen, this time displaying Oakland Crimes. I love the darkening and highlighting when you hover over one of the crime type icons.
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Beautiful Data
Lots of beautiful visualizations to be found within this long list at Smashing, at Visual complexity and some great examples at Pingmag. Some favs: Similar diversity Flight patterns (not the first time I link this) Time magazine where we live World history timeline at the Beeb Images from Total Interaction
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