FlowingData - Every death on the road in Great Britain

You're subscribed to the blog. Now get the book! Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Every death on the road in Great Britain Every death on the road in Great Britain Dec 07, 2011 12:07 am  •  Permalink As part of their series on road accidents, BBC News mapped every recorded death on the road in Great Britain, from 1999 to 2010. That's 2,396,750 road crashes. As you'd expect, the map looks a lot like population density, but check out the videos, which show twelve years of data compressed as if it were one week, played out over a few minutes. Each light represents an accident. Contrast with road fatalities in the United States. [BBC News via @aaronkoblin] More to read: 40 years of boxplots What seven billion people looks like Smiley installation shows the mood of a city Shan Carter on data storytelling Four degrees of separation  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2011 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences