Bouncy Maps

 

Maps of the world showing energy, minerals, agriculture, livestock, economy, population, religion, conflict and health.  When you select a category such as livestock and then subcategory like pigs and then select bouncymaps it will show you a map of the world scaled to by country that has the most pigs.  See the image below.  Also all data for each country is listed in descending order. See the example embedded below.  Move the toogle from regular map to bouncy map.   To see the website click here.

Population Divided Maps

The following map came from reddit

Half of Canada's population lives where the map is coloured red.  Why?  Is there a geographical reason for this?  If you would like to see some more population divided maps click here.  Ask yourself the same question about why half the population is there.

Gapminder - Demographics and it's Social Impact

You may not of Han's Rosling but he has some interesting video's and a fabulous website that you may want to use in your class that lets you see the correlation between many socio-economic variables.  Here are a couple of his videos.  The first video is from the BBC.

The second video is from the Guardian.  

The third is a TED talk.

The website I mentioned can be found by clicking here.  Gapminder has some excellent ways of looking at world data.  Check out their Teacher Tab or just click here.  Teachers, if you have time take a look at this over the break and see where you can use it in your classroom.  Students, maybe this could be a way of looking at some data for your next project.

Can Cities Save the Earth?

From

Rob Krulwich wrote a nice article where he credits Tim de Chant for wondering if we put the whole 7 billion people on the Earth in one city, how large would that city be?  Well that depends on how dense the population will be.  Is it packed like Hong Kong

or like Houston Texas?  With some calculations he came up with the following infograph (see my post on December 19 on infographs by clicking here ):

If you would like to see the whole article, click here.