Tag: Data bias

• In the shadow of the volcano: who lives near the world’s volcanoes

  

  I mapped all 1,215 of the world’s Holocene volcanoes and the people around them. At least 147 million people live within 30 km of one, and 76 volcanoes have a million or more neighbours.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Data bias, Geology, landscape, Natural hazards, population, Present day, World, world maps

• Where space rocks land, and why the meteorite record is so lumpy

  

  I mapped 45,715 meteorites from the Meteoritical Society’s catalogue. 65% were found on Antarctic ice and 24% in hot deserts, while the 1,107 seen to fall follow people, not the sky.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Data bias, Geology, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, World, world maps

• Ancient DNA on the map: 16,496 ancient genomes, placed where and when they lived

  

  I mapped every ancient human genome in the Allen Ancient DNA Resource, 16,496 people, by where and when they lived. 68% come from Europe; the first farmers spread out of Anatolia at about a kilometre a year; and in Britain, none of 76 men before 2500 BCE carried the Y line R1b.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  archaeology, Asia, Data bias, Europe, history, maps, Migration, population, Prehistory

• Every storm since 1851: where hurricanes form, where they hit, and are they getting stronger?

  

  I mapped all 13,186 tropical cyclones in NOAA’s global archive, from depressions to Category 5 typhoons. The number of storms has not changed since 1980, but more of them reach Category 4 or 5 and they peak further from the equator. Before satellites, the record misses too many storms to say much more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Data bias, history, Natural hazards, Present day, Twentieth century, Victorian, weather and climate, World, world maps

• Every battle in history, mapped

  

  Wikidata knows of 20,202 battles. I mapped the 13,712 with a place and a date, from 3001 BCE to 2026, to find the most fought-over places on Earth, follow the centre of war century by century, and see how much the famous map is really a map of who wrote things down.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Battles, Data bias, history, Long view, maps, Military history, war, Wikidata, Wikipedia, World, world maps