Fascinating data visualizations of our migratory ancestry as humans ...
Max Planck Institute and the University of Michigan
Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute have created the largest-ever family tree, which links more than 27 million people — both living and long dead — across the world.
Fascinating data visualization of flood prone areas across the United States from the David Rumsey Collection
These are screenshots from a wonderful video: "The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time". Great use of analytic visual comparisons...
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures
The idea dates at least to the early Confucian times (551–479 BCE), appearing prominently in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and "the rest of the world's major religions".
The Green Rule is derived from the classic Golden Rule found in major faith traditions, paraphrasing it by saying: "Do unto the Earth as you would have it do unto you."
Selected from many of the world’s great religious texts and spiritual teachings, the Green Rules were chosen to demonstrate that each religion and spiritual philosophy has a long-standing tradition of ecological stewardship...
Around the world, there are more than 7,000 regularly spoken vernaculars, this infographic shows off the top 100 most common languages in a very nice linguistic infographic. World languages list varied origins, with some branching off from the same ancient roots and some having a history all their own.
The myriad of languages have been illustrated with its language origin tree, so you can easily trace their roots. Beautiful and ever-evolving, like a forest, the sheer variety of common languages spoken around the globe has been charted here in one world language map. Check out the top 100 most popular languages and their origin.
A couple of really well done interactive data visualizations...
How can music and a love of interplanetary ideas mix together to make a data visualization? With this lovely interactive example of a data analysis about famous song covers. Each song is a planet and its covers are satellites orbiting around it. Each song planet can be clicked on to visualize its own specific data.
Songs...
Scroll down and interact - amazing
This is beautiful! Hover over any color at any point, and see the exact number of immigrants who became residents from that country in a specific decade.
A few selections from the visme site...
Humans are addicted to drinking water from plastic bottles. This has turned into a huge garbage problem. This visualization shows the piles of plastic bottles in relation to famous landmarks and cityscapes. Source #5
A Few Great Interactive Maps...
With technology advancements, content on maps and the maps themselves became digital, interactive, and more appealing as they’re incorporated in data analysis and reporting. Seeing location data mapped and included in visualizations has both enhanced understanding by more audiences and offered a valuable, new context.
Visualization by: Justin Fung. This is amazing (you may have to refresh the page)
This is a great example of a well made data-driven interactive map.
Test possible scenarios for how the US population might change by 2020 and 2030. The results will change depending on whether you choose low, average, or high rates for future births, deaths, or migration.
https://apps.urban.org/features/mapping-americas-futures/#map
“A global community can seem very abstract until you see its activities visually represented in your immediate location and across the world.”
- Strava CEO James Quarles
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"Americans are taught from an early age to analyze and understand the meaning and manipulation of words, but they are rarely taught the same skills about maps."
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| "zombie subdivision" |
