A Real-Time Simulation of Global Births and Deaths

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In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion.

Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual. Last year he and designer Bill Snebold made a hugely popular interactive simulation map of births and deaths in the U.S. alone—the population of which is on pace to increase 44 percent by 2050.

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/a-real-time-map-of-births-and-deaths/280609/"><img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/2013/10/30/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-30%20at%202.27.51%20PM/home-article-curation-405x234.png?mvhvj1" alt="A Real Time Map of Births and Deaths James Hamblin The Atlantic" /></a>
 
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 In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans.  Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php">U.S. Census Bureau</a> projections, there will be more than 9 billion.

Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual. Last year he and designer Bill Snebold made a hugely popular interactive <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTiZlAyTTFEaFVuOUk/">simulation map</a> of births and deaths in the U.S. alone—the population of which is on pace to increase <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.census.gov/#">44 percent</a> by 2050.

J Thoendell
5:01 PM Oct 30 2013

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Adam Rifkin
5:38 PM Oct 30 2013

By the way, the big data world population visualization is hella cool.

Technology is primarily d3.js, a javascript library by New York Times graphics editor Michael Bostock. A larger version, with more coding and data source information, is on this Google Drive.

Adam Rifkin
5:41 PM Oct 30 2013

Video of the simulation:

http://pandawhale.com/post/30718/demonstration-of-a-real-time-world-birthsdeaths-simulation-online-and-chrome-app-youtube

Adam Rifkin
9:04 AM Nov 01 2013

A Real-Time Simulation of Global Births and Deaths

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