Data Stories: Life and Death in Charts
These inventive visualizations compare the types of life on earth, simulate population growth, and explore the impact of celebrities’ deaths.
- By Upside Staff
- January 9, 2019
![Vox](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/010919Vizweightoflife.jpg)
Vox.com used the data from a giant study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences to create this giant chart showing all the categories of life on earth by the weight of their biomass.
![World population](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/010919Vizpopulation.jpg)
This statistical simulation dramatizes births and deaths around the world in real time. This article from The Atlantic gives more perspective and background from the visualization designer.
![The Pudding](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2019/01/010919Vizwikideath.jpg)
Scroll through this visualization from The Pudding to compare public reactions to celebrity deaths using spikes in Wikipedia traffic as a proxy data point.