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Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes


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I've probably posted more today than I have in the past several months combined and I thought I was done until I saw this. I love scientific visualizations. They provide a way to "grok" something in a way that words and numbers just don't allow.

 

Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes

 

 

 

It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization of the migration routes of more than 150,000 people, from 600 BC to the present day, brings to life human history in the Western world in an engrossing and novel way.

The model, produced by Maximilian Schich, at the University of Texas at Dallas, along with collaborators from the U.S., Switzerland and Hungary, represents the birth and death dates and locations of individual people. These data came from community database Freebase, a well-known German encyclopedia of the world’s artists, and Getty’s online artist names database.

 

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