More great data visualisation stuff. Imagine taking a map of the world, and having each country as a balloon. Then, inflate or deflate the balloon until the relative areas of the countries represent some statistic about them. You get a wonderful graphical representation of that data set which is much easier to understand than a long column of figures.
Here's the base site - some researchers at the University of Sheffield. Some pictures that I found particularly interesting were:
They are issuing new pictures regularly. There is some source code available for a related program implementing the same algorithm; however, there's no licence to modify. :-|
Posted by gerv at July 14, 2006 10:43 AM