Information is Beautiful
Information is Beautiful has been around for a while, but it’s such a great site, I just wanted to give it a shout-out here.
In the last 100 years or so, many technology watchers (including Einstein, IIRC) have lamented how the human brain has barely changed while its many inventions continue to reshape our environment at a constantly accelerating pace.
Short of Eugenics 2.0 (probably NOT a good idea), we need to get smarter FAST, and recent advances in Visualizing Information are one of the fronts that look especially promising. To a cartoonist anyway.
Not all of the charts David McCandless offers up on his site are in the spirit of rigorous scholarship. Some are just rhetorical jabs. But see if you don’t feel your own brain crammed with ideas after a stroll through its pages.
March 3, 2021
Oh wow, that really IS awe-some. I’ve never thought of my continent as being that vast. What a great site, nice one Scott.
Mercator Projections really don’t do equatorial countries justice, do they?