I don’t know who is responsible for this, but HOLY MOLY. View the whole infographic here!
Responses to this chart via my friends range from “THAT IS AMAZING” to “Who has the time?” to “Am I on there?”
The True Size of Africa
October 13th, 2010 by Julie HillInfographics blowin’ my mind again! Click here to view the full size.
In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as “immappancy”, meaning insufficient geographical knowledge.
A survey with random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of their country. Not entirely unexpected, but still rather unsettling, the majority chose “1-2 billion” and “largest in the world”, respectively.
Even with Asian and European college students, geographical estimates were often off by factors of 2-3. This is partly due to the highly distorted nature of the predominantly used mapping projection (such as Mercator_.
A particularly extreme example is the worldwide misjudgement [sic] of the true size of Africa. This single image tries to embody the massive scale, which is larger than the USA, China, India, Japan and all of Europe…combined! – Kai Krause
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Information is Beautiful
July 13th, 2010 by Julie Hill
Infographics done well are one of the most beautiful things. I’ve cited a few in past posts, and this is where they came from: Information is Beautiful dot net
If you like design and/or research, you’ll want to check it out.
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Swine Flu Infographics
December 8th, 2009 by Julie HillWonderful infographics and perspective, courtesy of Michæl Paukner. View the full-sized version here.
For those who skip the larger version, SPOILER: Swine Flu beat out Leprosy deaths by 410 people worldwide, but “falling down” killed 339,689 more people than H1N1. Tread carefully, folks.
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