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

Total Population

Cell Phone Subscribers

Cell Phone Subscribers

Living on less than $10 a day

Living on $10 a day

Deaths by Non-Communicable Disease

Non Communicable Disease Deaths

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

2 Comments »

  1. Interesting. It’s a great way to view the data.

    January 10, 2008

  2. 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


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