Container ships parked off the Singapore coast. As of March 2009, 11.3 percent of the world’s shipping capacity sat idle from How Google Earth explains the financial crisis found via ChartPorn

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Container ships parked off the Singapore coast. As of March 2009, 11.3 percent of the world’s shipping capacity sat idle from How Google Earth explains the financial crisis found via ChartPorn

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The piece consists of two layers: the lower half is a mapping of the
world’s GDP and the top half is a mapping of the derivatives volume,
alloted to the coordinates of the countries on a map.
Sculpture found via infomation aesthetics
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One of several maps showing territories re-sized according different variables. More maps can be found at WorldMapper run by SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan). The map below displays the population in 2000.
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[tags]World, Population[/tags]
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