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Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Bible Map


The Atlas of Pentecostalism has created a Google Map using a static paradigm of a motion painting graph of global sales of the Bible. The motion painting graph itself uses scaled tiles to correspond the disclose of Bible sales as well as the tiles themselves are organized geographically to practice a map of the world.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 motion painting graph was clearly non the best agency to introduce this data. The transcend of each tile (not it's surface area) represents the disclose of sales. This on its ain may campaign around confusion inwards interpreting the data.

The transcend of the tiles every bit good causes other problems, for illustration taller tiles necessarily obscure the tiles of smaller tiles places behind them. Turning the static paradigm into a map does lessen the affect of this work to a certainly extent. You tin laissez passer on the axe zoom inwards on partly hidden tiles to at to the lowest degree convey a justice at what province an obscured tile is meant to represent.

The information inwards the Bible Sales map every bit good mightiness convey been to a greater extent than informative if it had been based on per capita sales. For illustration the tiles representing Republic of Republic of India as well as Communist People's Republic of China both signal high sales of Bibles inwards these countries. However using Bible sales per capita inwards either province would presumably introduce an solely dissimilar picture. The information every bit good represents both Bible sales as well as every bit good Bibles given away inwards each country. Separating the Bible sales as well as Bible donations information inwards each province mightiness convey been to a greater extent than informative.