5 Data-Rich Visuals That Shape My View of the World

I’ve always been attracted to data as a way of understanding the world a bit better. True story: In 2006, when I was working at an ecolodge in Guatemala, I met a steady stream of travelers from all over the globe. I would carry The Economist’s Pocket World in Figures around as a cheat sheet to refer to every time I met people from a country I didn’t know enough about.