Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes?

Ed Hawkins’ Climate Stripes visualization of global heating has quickly become a data visualization classic. Climate Stripes (sometimes known as Warming Stripes) are a visual representation of the long-term increase in global temperatures due to climate change. Ed’s striking Climate Stripes visualizations consist of colored vertical stripes, with each stripe representing a single year and Maps Mania… more →
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Population Stripes

Julien Gaffuri, a cartographer at Eurostat, has created an interactive map which allows you to place stripes of any size and orientation on a map of Europe and discover the percentage of the continent’s population living within the area covered by the stripe.Julien’s Population Stripe map uses population data from the statistical office of the European Union, and provides some very iinteresting Maps Mania… more →
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