Comments on: Visualizing the World as 100 People

By: E-Nyce

E-Nyce — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:53:19 +0000

It’s an interesting visual. Great for simplifying an explanation of whatever statistics you’re trying to convey. I’m not sure if the Sim City motif is to make the numbers non-threatening to people of certain sensibilities, or to enforce that it’s a tool best suited for children.

I would love it if they allowed the numbers to be interactively modified based on stats from after the Clinton era.

By: saekhow (Nareas Sae-Khow)

saekhow (Nareas Sae-Khow) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:35:12 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/87r3de If the world were a village of 100 people: How many child soldiers from Africa? http://www.binsworld.com/100/

By: David Ker

David Ker — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:46:04 +0000

HASH, I noted that too.

Eddie, such simplification requires some strange bedfellows, like atheists and animists. I can’t think of two groups with more divergent worldviews! And when the chapel has something about 1 in 10 couples being homosexual well first that’s an extremely contested figure and second is that the interesting data about marriage. What about age of brides at marriage or divorce rate or whatever. And the stuff about radios, TVs and computers just requires a lot of fudging. Our house has two TVs and four laptops.

I’m too lazy to tease out the hard data but even so I think it’s a great tool for visualizing the world (although it is busy).

I’m done whining…

By: Leo Faya

Leo Faya — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:13:43 +0000

Hash,

Unless my browser is playing tricks on me – that page goes to a Chinese landing page – please confirm.

By: HASH

HASH — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:25:38 +0000

In truth, though this is a fantastic visual, they somehow diverged from the “100 people” framework and got into bigger numbers. I still like it though.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:53:46 +0000

Come on then, Mr Ker, where exactly is the balderdash? Let’s have some hard info, not just comment.

By: changefeed (changefeed)

changefeed (changefeed) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:24:12 +0000

->@WhiteAfrican: Visualizing the World as 100 People http://tinyurl.com/87r3de

By: David Ker

David Ker — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:02:01 +0000

“Lies. Damned lies. And statistics.” well, there’s some good stuff in there but also quite a lot of balderdash… 😉

By: jke

jke — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:45:00 +0000

Interesting map, thx!