Illustrative Maps in Current Affairs

From my latest blogpost: "The Data section of British paper The Guardian is a great example of illustrating reams of data and helping readers make sense of it - such maps are only illustrations, not exacting science as in my previous post - readers wish to grasp trends for tabular data by country, rather than examine their exact geographies.

Google Fusion Tables (GFT) are a very easy means to post and combine data stored by countries, say, from the UN Data repository. I already wrote here about using World Bank Ease of doing Business data, as well as my own mash-up of WolframAlpha search results for religions per capita. I will now use World Bank data from the GFT Catalogue to do the following..."

Correction: Illustrative Maps in Current Affairs

 

Correct blog link is http://bit.ly/o46W81

 

Andrew Zolnai blog.zolnai.ca

Fixed

Thanks. That's fixed in the story itself now.

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