In the visual syntax of infographics and maps, bigger equals… well, bigger. Large dots on a map or bars in a chart correspond to a proportionally large quantity of stuff being visualized–like ...

“The World, Traced by Airport Runways”, by James Davenport, is a global map drawn by nothing but the points of airports, runways, and helicopter pads.So while you can easily make out the ...

The Web world was once distributed among lots of different social networks (Wretch, Lide, Friendster, Maktoob, Zing, One, Mixi, etc.) until Facebook began taking over large chunks of the globe.

We may think we have a general idea of how happy people are across the globe depending on where they are — but it's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Sergiu George from Movehub, an ...