Tag: Twentieth century

• Who was big when? 126 seasons of English league football on one map

  

  Every English league club since 1888 on one map, sized by its crowd: 41.2 million at league matches in 1948-49, 16.5 million in 1985-86, a game that moved south, and 39 towns that lost their league club.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Britain, England, Football, history, maps, Present day, sport, Twentieth century, Victorian, Wales

• Junk on the Moon and Mars: every human-made object on two worlds, mapped

  

  I mapped every human-made object on the Moon and Mars from Wikipedia’s lists: 133 on the Moon and 27 on Mars, 203 tonnes and 10.4 tonnes. A third of the Moon’s junk is five Saturn V rocket stages, and almost all of it is dead.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Beyond Earth, Exploration, Heritage, maps, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Twentieth century, Wikipedia, world maps

• Where football clubs come from: from Sheffield in 1857 to every corner of the world

  

  I put 45,931 football clubs from Wikidata on one animated map, in the order they were founded: from Sheffield FC in 1857 to 222 countries and territories, with the oldest club in each and the clubs that folded.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Football, history, sport, Twentieth century, Victorian, Wikidata, World, world maps

• What the world grows: farmland and crops on one map

  

  The leading crop on every 10 km square of the world’s farmland, and sixty years of change in how much land we farm. Wheat, maize, rice and soya beans cover 50% of the harvest, and half of it grows on 6.4% of the world’s land.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  FAOSTAT, Farming, food and drink, Land use, landscape, maps, Present day, Twentieth century, World, world maps

• Where the animals are: the world’s cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens on one map

  

  35.3 billion farm animals for 8.1 billion people, mapped every 10 km. Chickens have multiplied 7.1 times since 1961, farm mammals outnumber people in 40 countries, and New Zealand has lost two thirds of its sheep.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  maps, wildlife, food and drink, world maps, FAOSTAT, Farming, Present day, Twentieth century, World