Following the map of Europe’s external debt, here comes the same data put into global context. This map is a modified version of a work that has been made for the Times newspaper (featured in the printed edition on March, 25) in their coverage of the 2010 budget. As this picture shows, it is not only the Eurozone, but most Western countries in a deep crisis – global inequalities the other way around this time – this is a topic that will be with us for months (and years) to come and still a long way to go on the road to recovery. So, keep this picture in mind:
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European debt levels in 2010
Alistair Darling is just about to announce the UK’s budget this Wednesday in the run-up to the forthcoming General Election, while the Eurozone countries stew over the fate of Greece and its implications for the European currency. In the reality of a world economic crisis, it’s everyone for himself, and Europe seems far from being a united community.
The following map compares the total debt of the EU-27 countries and the debt’s share of the GDP – revealing some interesting views: In sheer numbers, the PIGS are not alone (Greece, in fact, almost not counting). Eventually, we’re all in the same boat in the sea of gloom (click map for larger view)…
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Vancouver revisited: Paralympics vs Olympics
The glowing hearts in Vancouver eventually died down with the ending of the Winter Paralympics yesterday. Time for another review and another map: The following map shows the final results of the Paralympics with the countries of the world re-sized according to the total number of medals awarded at the Paralympics (click map for larger view):
This map becomes quite interesting when opposed to the results of the Olympics. The more affluent countries dominate the whole picture again at the Paralympics, but there are some obvious differences. China disappeared, Eastern Europe grew and Canada finally managed to catch up with the United States. Here is the map of the Olympics again:
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The Population of the Island of Ireland
This map is not yet shown in worldmapper’s collection of country cartograms, as we don’t show maps of larger islands there if they are politically divided. As the Irish Islanders are all celebrating their culture today, here is how the full island’s population distribution looks like in the worldmapper gridded cartogram style:
Happy Paddy’s Day…
Update 2011: See a new version of this map using a NASA satellite image here.
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Vancouver 2010 medal count
The Winter Olympics in Vancouver yielded some great visualizations, with the New York Times work being amongst the top ones. They are showing off a map of the Winter Olympic Medals in the tradition of the Dorling cartograms. They also did a great job on a 3D map of the venues.
For those who want for worldmapper style maps, here is the relief: The worldmapper map of the actual medal count. The following is transformed due to a country’s total number of medals it has won.
A larger version of the map can be viewed by clicking on the image.
ArcUser article: Re-Mapping the World’s Population
My contribution to the ESRI UC 2009 found its way into the Winter 2010 edition of ArcUser:
Article as PDF ; Article onlineThe slideshow from last year’s talk at the ESRI UC Is now also available online to watch on Slideshare:
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