population

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…
Two Centuries of Population, Animated

Data Underload / America, population

A visual history of a growing United States.
Who is Older and Younger than You

Data Underload / age, population

Here’s a chart to show you how long you have until you start to feel your age.
Equal population mapper

Maps / density, population, Slate

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
Watch the U.S. population center shift west

Maps / census, population

According to the U.S. census, the mean center of the population shifted west…
Where nobody lives

Maps / census, population

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
Pickle Index for population estimation

Statistics / China, population

As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…
Racial dot map

Maps / census, ethnicity, population

Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…
Personal space per person in various countries

Infographics / CNNMoney, population

How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for…
Map of every person counted in 2010 US Census

Maps / census, population

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…
Interactive Islands of Mankind

Maps / interactive, population

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
Growing urban populations

Maps / animation, interactive, Periscopic, population

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
What seven billion people looks like

Maps / density, Fathom, population

Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity:
Dencity…