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How We Share the World | Metrocosm This interactive graphic shows how the world is divided according to six different socioeconomic variables. The land area of each country represents its share of the worldwide total. Click on a circle to reshape the map For attribution and data sources, scroll to the bottom. I have been having fun experimenting with cartograms lately. For more information about what a cartogram is, have a look at my last two posts, The Housing Value of Every County in the U.S. and A Striking Perspective on New York City Property Values. For this map, I looked at several different socioeconomic variables to include. The GDP-scaled map makes it clear how dominant the U.S. economy is. Government Debt Looking at the world scaled by government debt, the first thing that jumps out is Japan. Population / Births Asia is home to about three fifths of world’s population, and arguably the 10 largest human settlements in the world. Wealth Extreme Wealth Hope you enjoy playing with the map. Attribution Follow Metrocosm

Just Updated Best List For “Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People” I’m continuing my systematic “culling” of dead links and revising of older “Best” lists. My latest clean-up has been of The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People. Check it out! Related If The World Were 100 People.... I've just updated The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. January 5, 2012 In "social studies" The World As 100 People -- Using Legos I've previously posted a pretty neat "The Best..." list titled The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. January 30, 2011 Infographic: "The World As 100 People" I'm adding this to The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S.

Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps — Justin O'Beirne Wow. In New York, both maps have only 10% percent of their place labels in common! And in London, it’s just 12%! So, “How often were the same places shown on both maps?” Not often at all. And once again, the maps are very different from each other! So as we just saw, the maps don’t seem to label the same exact places. Let’s look at that next… 🔎 INVESTIGATION #6Do Google Maps & Apple Maps Label the Same Kinds of Places? In a dense city like New York, there are so many different kinds of places: hospitals, parks, homes, schools, grocery stores, fire stations, skyscrapers, government buildings, cathedrals, universities—the list goes on and on, and it’s seemingly endless. Take the maps below: there are thousands of different places that could’ve been labeled on either of these maps:

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