{"id":1311,"date":"2007-06-13T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/06\/13\/meet-the-world\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:38:00","slug":"meet-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/06\/13\/meet-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art project by 25-year-old Brazilian <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Icaro Doria:<\/span>  Using national flags as graphics to communicate statistics about that country.  For example, instead of a pie chart showing how many 14-year-olds in China are studying instead of working:<\/p>\n<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/china-787774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/china-787772.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazilianartists.net\/home\/flags\/\">www.brazilianartists.net\/home\/flags<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the same vein, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/gapminder\">Gapminder World<\/a> (requires Flash), which allows you to manipulate and animate statistics collected by the UN over the last 30 years.  Pretty sobering stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ObDisclosure:  <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/world-in-motion.html\">Google<\/a> acquired Gapminder&#8217;s &#8220;Trendalyzer&#8221; team and software in March, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art project by 25-year-old Brazilian Icaro Doria: Using national flags as graphics to communicate statistics about that country. For example, instead of a pie chart showing how many 14-year-olds in China are studying instead of working: www.brazilianartists.net\/home\/flags In the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}