Let’s work through a practical example to see how asking and answering questions helps guide you towards more focused data graphics.
population
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Ask the Question, Visualize the Answer
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World population estimator and gridded data from NASA
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
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Majority minorities
We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
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Percentage of white people
Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…
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Two Centuries of Population, Animated
A visual history of a growing United States.
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Who is Older and Younger than You
Here’s a chart to show you how long you have until you start to feel your age.
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Equal population mapper
We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
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Watch the U.S. population center shift west
According to the U.S. census, the mean center of the population shifted west…
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Where nobody lives
We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
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Pickle Index for population estimation
As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…
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Racial dot map
Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…
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Personal space per person in various countries
How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for…
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Map of every person counted in 2010 US Census
In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…
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Interactive Islands of Mankind
Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
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Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
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What seven billion people looks like
Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity:
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How we got to a population of 7 billion
NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion. Simply put, the…
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7 billion people in the world: past, present and future
According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over…
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World population densities mapped
National Geographic has a look at where and how we live:
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If the world lived in a single city
World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…