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Data Stories: Mapping Scale and Conveying Size

A good data visualization must be able to convey the scale of its subject to the audience. Check out these examples that compare maps, print out a river, and illustrate the size of the universe.

By Upside Staff
January 24, 2024

Maps and Measurements

This webpage contains two side-by-side maps that remain in the same scale as you move, allowing you to easily compare places that are very far apart.

Every Bend in the River

This article explains how a long, skinny map of a river was printed on a six-foot strip of receipt paper.

From the Tiny to the Vast

This YouTube video compares the largest and smallest things in the universe by referencing everything to an average human’s height.

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