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03/11/2014 01:16:52 AM · #1 |
| Great set of demographic / infographic maps - figured I should share. |
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03/11/2014 01:26:37 AM · #2 |
| Interesting set of maps!...... Have you seen a map of Tassie? |
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03/11/2014 01:31:54 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Stagolee:
Interesting set of maps!...... Have you seen a map of Tassie? |
A rather good collection of them through the years in fact. ;) |
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03/11/2014 07:49:02 AM · #4 |
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03/11/2014 08:36:37 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by LN13:
I love maps. |
Be silly not to really. |
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03/11/2014 08:36:40 AM · #6 |
ddd
Message edited by author 2014-03-11 08:37:10. |
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03/11/2014 08:40:56 AM · #7 |
| Great maps. Dumb to show them as a video |
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03/11/2014 08:47:55 AM · #8 |
I feel bad for the countries that England didn't try to invade.
... and why the hell is the coach of Rutgers getting all that money?
Message edited by author 2014-03-11 11:00:48. |
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03/11/2014 11:35:04 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
I feel bad for the countries that England didn't try to invade.
... and why the hell is the coach of Rutgers getting all that money? |
would you know what Rutgers was without their football program? |
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03/11/2014 11:54:41 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Mike:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
I feel bad for the countries that England didn't try to invade.
... and why the hell is the coach of Rutgers getting all that money? |
would you know what Rutgers was without their football program? |
Rutgers has football? |
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03/11/2014 12:09:49 PM · #11 |
| Cool - thanks for sharing. |
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03/11/2014 12:29:40 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Great maps. Dumb to show them as a video |
Here they are as still images: 25 Informative Maps |
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03/11/2014 12:52:04 PM · #13 |
| Bear - thanks for posting that link, easier to view that way than video |
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03/11/2014 01:05:53 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Great maps. Dumb to show them as a video |
I agree, it's dumb to show them as a video.
[Soapbox]
I took a 1 year course in GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and maps like some of these drive me bonkers. I'm certainly no pro, but I know enough to not take maps and charts at face value. Even less so in a video like this, because there's zero time to actually look at any of the maps to understand them. It's designed to make you just go, "OMG, wow!" at what seems like astonishing straight-forward facts. The data may be accurate, but data is easily spun by people trying to make a point. There's so much that can be manipulated/skewed.
For instance, the McDonald's map. They're doing exactly what they say they're doing by highlighting the countries that have McDonald's. Red sure is a grabbing color. Yes, it makes sense for the subject matter, but it is still a color that invokes emotion. It also highlights the whole country, which is exactly what it said it was doing, but that's really misleading. It makes you think, "Gee, there's a zillion McDonald's, and everyone eats there!" How many do you think there are in Northern Russia or Northern Canada? However, if you actually have access to the numbers, it's not that impressive (or it's impressive for different reasons). A fact like "How many countries have McDonald's" is more fair to the viewers as a list rather than a map, IMO. If you wanted to show me a density map of McDonalds' with a normalized population figure, that might be interesting.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald%27s_restaurants
The donors of foreign aid map is another example. What are the numbers used? Is it a straight up dollar amount or is that dollar amount normalized in any way? The map looks completely different if you go by a percentage of the country's gross national income. If Luxembourg would have made this map, it would have looked completely different. But since they didn't, "America, fuck yeah!"
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governments_by_development_aid
Some questions to ask I ask myself before I go, "OMG, wow!"
Who is publishing this map?
What are the actual numbers?
What is the map projection?
What influences the data? (population density, etc)
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03/11/2014 01:09:14 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Great maps. Dumb to show them as a video |
Here they are as still images: 25 Informative Maps |
A much more fair way of presenting the maps. They have links to their sources even. How bouts that... |
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03/11/2014 01:11:13 PM · #16 |
| Turns out that my household consumption of coffee is about 25x the national average. That's surprising. |
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03/11/2014 01:26:23 PM · #17 |
| Icelanders get busy early. |
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