{"id":1890,"date":"2013-01-21T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:06:40","slug":"the-data-of-death-a-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/21\/the-data-of-death-a-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Data of Death \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153worst century\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>War? Disease? Natural disasters?<\/p>\n<p>We gathered and examined mortality data from \u00c2\u00a0around the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from disease to murder to mudslides \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then calculated and visualised what killed the most people.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a 6m x 2m visualisation art-piece for the Wellcome Collection\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s free London exhibition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcomecollection.org\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/death-a-self-portrait.aspx\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Death \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Self Portrait\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>. (open daily until the 24th Feb 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The show explores the iconography and cultural imagery of death, exhibiting totems, death masks and other <em>memento mori<\/em> from around the word.<\/p>\n<p>The experience culminates \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as all things really should these days \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with a mega, wall-sized dataviz:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"520_wellcome_death_graphic__2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com\/2013\/01\/520_wellcome_death_graphic__2.jpg?resize=520%2C355\" width=\"520\" height=\"355\"><br \/> We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll share the full image and data with you after the exhibition closes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?a=3vZaKxQA8Wc:9ahwUaP19Us:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?a=3vZaKxQA8Wc:9ahwUaP19Us:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?a=3vZaKxQA8Wc:9ahwUaP19Us:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/InformationIsBeautiful?i=3vZaKxQA8Wc:9ahwUaP19Us:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via Information Is Beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2013\/the-data-of-death-a-visualization\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationIsBeautiful+%28Information+Is+Beautiful%29\">http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2013\/the-data-of-death-a-visualization\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationIsBeautiful+%28Information+Is+Beautiful%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153worst century\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? War? Disease? Natural disasters? We gathered and examined mortality data from \u00c2\u00a0around the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from disease to murder to mudslides \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then calculated and visualised what killed the most people. The result is a 6m x 2m visualisation art-piece for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/21\/the-data-of-death-a-visualization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Data of Death \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Visualization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[821,6,822],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-david","tag-ifttt","tag-information-is-beautiful"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-uu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}