Visualisation Sites
A couple of sites that help you visualise things ...
1. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
<http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html>
An interesting catalogue of the many ways to represent ideas, concepts,
data etc. Based on the Periodic Table of chemical elements.
2. Worldmapper
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html>
"The world as you've never seen it before"
About the maps:
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/about.html#maps>
"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms
where territories are re-sized on each map according to a particular
variable... Every map shows the worldwide distribution of something,
called a variable. If a particular country is larger on one map than
another, it follows that it has a higher proportion of the world total
of the first variable.
Examples:
* Wealth 2002
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=170>
* Human Poverty
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=174>
* Affected by Disasters
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=245>
* Nuclear Power
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=114>
* Coal Power
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=113>
* Military Spending 2002
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=279>
* Nuclear Weapons
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=289>
* Voter Turnout
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=360>
* Tertiary Education
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=203>
* Books Borrowed
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=344>
* Internet Users 2002
<http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=336>
