The only truly politically correct joke.
Submitted by Ian from WWU. Thanks!
(Although, since this list is trying to avoid non-ethnic nationalities, I should point out nitpick that neither Scots nor Welsh fit in the list.)
Laconic History of The World (2012)
My first attempt at a typographic map. Don’t be content with the shrunken version up there: this thing is pretty dang sprawling: I’ve prepped a mind-boggling 12,500 pixel wide version you can enjoy exploring:
http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/3.00/57.89/9.67
This map was produced by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing out the most common word to fit into the country’s boundary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words.
I’ve also prepared a reader’s companion to highlight a few of the more interesting findings. Read it here.
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A Map of All the World’s Hurricanes Since 1851
[Image: IDV User Experience]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9gvvptBUx1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
A Map of All the World’s Hurricanes Since 1851
[Image: IDV User Experience]
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The Geography of Klout: Mapping Social Media Influence
The United States, which tends to dominate social media rankings, came in just 10th on this analysis, with an average Klout score of 33. They note, however, that: “[T]his isn’t to say that tweets emanating from the U.S. as a whole are not influential. The U.S. is the world’s largest source of content on Twitter. This massive amount of information pushed through the platform undoubtedly means that American users in the aggregate have a large amount of visibility.”
Read more. [Image: Floating Sheep]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d1uj9PkC1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Geography of Klout: Mapping Social Media Influence
The United States, which tends to dominate social media rankings, came in just 10th on this analysis, with an average Klout score of 33. They note, however, that: “[T]his isn’t to say that tweets emanating from the U.S. as a whole are not influential. The U.S. is the world’s largest source of content on Twitter. This massive amount of information pushed through the platform undoubtedly means that American users in the aggregate have a large amount of visibility.”
Read more. [Image: Floating Sheep]
Seems that magyar are 10 times more likely to die from “falling out of bed” than Americans are.
Submitted by the tumblrless Wibbly. Thanks!
Pick a cause of death and see which country is number one.
