An Infographic That Maps 2,000 Years of Cultural History in 5 Minutes | Design | WIRED
▻http://www.wired.com/2014/08/an-infographic-that-maps-2600-years-of-cultural-history-in-5-minutes
Fascinant. On se demande quoi faire en cartographie après avoir vu ça...
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIhRkCcD4U
Ah, Hollywood. Our glowing beacon of modern hope and dreams. But before Hollywood, there was New York, and before New York there was Berlin, Paris, Rome and Greece. History’s most creative people have always flocked to cultural and intellectual hubs, and now, thanks to an amazing visualization from researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, we can see how that migration has changed over time.
Last week in the journal Science, the researchers (led by University of Texas at Dallas art historian Maximilian Schich) published a study that looked at the cultural history of Europe and North America by mapping the birth and deaths of more than 150,000 notable figures—including everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Ernest Hemingway. That data was turned into an amazing animated infographic that looks strikingly similar to the illustrated flight paths you find in the back of your inflight magazine. Blue dots indicate a birth, red ones means death.
