population

Population surrounded by interstate highways

Maps / Alasdair Rae, interstate, population

Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people…
India estimated to pass China in population

Statistical Visualization / China, India, New York Times, population

Based on the United Nations’ world population report, it is estimated that India’s…
8 billion population visualized

Infographics / population, Washington Post

Here’s a fun interactive from The Washington Post to earmark the world reaching…
Splitting the US population evenly, with arbitrary shapes

Maps / Engaging Data, population

By Engaging Data, this interactive map shows various splits of the United States…
Where there is more livestock than people in the United States

Maps / Erin Davis, livestock, population, USDA

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…
Football field to show population change in the UK

Infographics / census, population, scale

The Office for National Statistics for the UK published an interactive to show…
Your place in the world population

Statistical Visualization / age, population, World Data Lab

Population.io by World Data Lab asks your birthday, country of residence, and gender.…
Rapidly growing African cities

Statistical Visualization / Africa, population, Washington Post

In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts

Maps / census, Google News Initiative, Pitch Interactive, population, race

Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Where Americans Live

Data Underload / census, population

Everyone gets a dot. You get a dot. And you get a dot. And you.
Race and ethnicity map of dots

Maps / census, CNN, population, race

CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the…
Historical shifts in where people live

Statistical Visualization / census, population, states, Washington Post

The places in the United States with the highest populations weren’t always like…
Map of nighttime lights normalized by population

Maps / lights, population, Tim Wallace

You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
Game: How many US cities can you name?

Maps / city, game, population

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
Searching for the densest square kilometer in different cities

Maps / density, population

Based on data from Gridded Population of the World, geographer Garrett Dash Nelson…
Population mountains

Maps / 3-d, population, Pudding

You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…
Ask the Question, Visualize the Answer

Guides / population, questions

Let’s work through a practical example to see how asking and answering questions helps guide you towards more focused data graphics.
World population estimator and gridded data from NASA

Data Sources / NASA, population

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
Majority minorities

Sketchbook / animation, population, R, race

We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
Percentage of white people

Sketchbook / animation, population, race

Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…

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