Jan 09
Worldmapper – Trending the globe
I am fascinated by the different ways people represent data. We grow accustomed to displaying data in the same old ways. We start to glance over the mundane bar graphs we see everyday. We forget that the relationship between the data is more important than the specific numerical values. Graphs are for trends, reports are for numbers.
Worldmapper takes the same old data we hear every day in the news and dares to present it uniquely. I think it makes their point well.
Total Population
Cell Phone Subscribers
Living on less than $10 a day
Deaths by Non-Communicable Disease
About Josh Walsh
Josh Walsh is a Managing Partner at Designing Interactive. He's also an award winning designer, author and speaker on the topics of User Experience Design, User Interface Design and Usability Research. You can follow him on twitter at: @joshwalsh
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Danny
Interesting. It’s a great way to view the data.
January 10, 2008
Bonnie Domeny
I hope they keep these maps to compare to in 5 years. It’s certainly a new way to look at things.
January 10, 2008