Mad Mike Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Very cool. Shared with the big data scientist in my family to see what she makes of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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