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The geography of personality – new study maps the correlation between character traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness openness, and neuroticism) and location.
This, of course, assumes “personality” is a fixed and stable variable – which we know it is not.
Cartographer Charles E. Riddiford’s family of typefaces designed in the early 1930s for National Geographic in order to improve the photomechanical reproductive qualities of maps.
Also see this vintage illustrated guide to how we use maps, the history of modern cartography, and some striking visual examples.
Beautifully minimalist line-drawing postcards of London Underground train depots. Complement with a pictorial history of how the Underground shaped London.
NPR data journalist Matt Stiles maps health (un)insurance by county – darker hues denote higher uninsured percentage. Larger, interactive version here.
Note the obvious correlation.
Cartography can be an incredible form of escapism, as maps act as proxies for experiences, real or fabricated. Whatever their purpose or subject matter, even the most rudimentary of maps have an inherent beauty, an attraction in their way of ordering things.
After mapping income inequality around the world, visualizing income inequality in America.
When 13th-century Arab and Persian astronomers mapped the skies. Pair with this visual history of mapping the cosmos and 100 diagrams that changed the world.
The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income—and everyone else has zero income). Income distribution can vary greatly from wealth distribution in a country.
Mapping income inequality around the world
Once something is predictable, it becomes designable – you can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem, even if the problem is as pernicious and intractable as racism.
Does racism affect how you vote? Rockstar statistician Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t, uses stats to counter mythology in this dynamic, fascinating, and surprising TED talk.
