Cool data visualization website

[mayica]

The worldmapper site is an archive of world maps, distorted so the area of each country is proportional to interesting data such as population, or wealth, or net immegration, or a whole host of other data sets.
Here's one showing where tourists travel to:

Comments

[magid]

That's fascinating. Thank you.
(And it's scary, how much Africa doesn't exist.)

[mayica]

The infant mortality map is incredibly depressing; it's all Africa and India.

I'm going to work these maps into my class next semester; I love sites which make it easy for students to explore data.

[magid]

I poked around the site some; it's impressive.

[ams16]

I see Mecca!