My name is Tiffany and I'm an information designer. I’m also a cat lover, coffee drinker, gamer, bookworm, avid hiker, classic rock listener and most of all a big geek. Welcome to my little place on the Interwebs where I can be random.
Gabriel's Ghost by Linnea Sinclair
How do you show everything that has ever happened? Everything. This visualisation from the ChronoZoom project takes the biggest of big data - the universe itself - and makes it manageable, bringing videos, graphics and words together to picture the globe. If you roll over the scale at the top of the chart, click on origins of the modern world, jump to threshold and see just how we fit in.
(via The Guardian)
Ain’t that something? Also, when I was born there were only 4.9 billion people on Earth. Just over 25 years later we’re about to hit 7 billion! Just look at the chart below (via an interactive graphic on BBC News) and see how fast the world’s population has increased over the last century alone!
Truly scary stuff! And there’s more. While I was on the site playing with all the interactive parts, the final stat they reveal is the amount the population has grown since you’ve been on the site. In my case it was +1,327 people!
