World Mapper- "The World As You've Never Seen It Before"

Abstract

The Worldmapper site takes its catchphrase, "The World as You've Never Seen It Before," and puts it into data-driven action, featuring cartograms that display global regions "re-sized according to the subject of interest." A total-population world map, for example, displays India and Japan swollen to outsized proportions, while the United States looms large on the map of private spending on health-care and Southeastern Africa dominates the map of HIV prevalence. Some of the broad topics include health, education, transportation, communication, work, and housing, but the list continues to expand. Each map comes with a downloadable PDF poster and downloadable data files in Excel and OpenDoc format. The Worldmapper project is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield (UK) which hosts the site, and the University of Michigan.

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