Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010
Each light point is an individual collision which resulted in a casualty. The intensity of brightness shows where collisions are more frequent. BBC has also provided several videos that animate 12 years of road crash data. Each light point is the site of a road collision resulting in injury. The brighter the lights, the more collisions have occurred. During the morning and late rush hours, the maps pulse with light.
The world of Wikipedia’s languages mapped (English Above)
These maps from a bunch of researchers at the University of Oxford show what language geo-tagged Wikipedia posts are written in. Each of the yellow dots represents a human effort that’s has gone into describing some place, and there’s a different map for each language’s Wikipedia site. More here.
List of statutory minimum employment leave by country
There is no doubting the skill of designer Toby Ng. His designs have won him numerous accolades including the Red Dots Awards, International Design Awards, and the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial Awards among others. One of his projects, called World of 100 answers the question: If the world were a village of 100 people, what would its composition be? The answer consists of twenty brilliantly designed posters based on statistics about the population around the world under different classifications. The stats are more powerful because of Ng’s illustrations. He uses vibrant, bold colors combined with crisp, clean lines.
“Look,” says Ng, “this is the world we are living in.” by http://www.toby-ng.com/
