Comments on: Global urban growth, 1950 – 2010 | Impure blog http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/15/global-urban-growth-1950-2010-impure-blog/ Analyzing the visual presentation of social data. Each post, Laura Norén takes a chart, table, interactive graphic or other display of sociologically relevant data and evaluates the success of the graphic. Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: 590 cities | Impure Blog http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/15/global-urban-growth-1950-2010-impure-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-10031 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:03 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=1514#comment-10031 […] Update: our friends at graphic sociology just published a post about this visualization. […]

]]> By: Daniel Aguilar http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/15/global-urban-growth-1950-2010-impure-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-10028 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:49:31 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=1514#comment-10028 Congratulations for such a nice article, so good to find people trying to push our point of view beyond the usual limits. Regarding your note about the charts not properly showing the global population growth, I guess the author decided (and this is just my personal guess) to stick to normalized values because he was more interested in displaying the mutual relations between cities rather than absolute values.

However, here’s a slightly different version clearly showing how population went just boom: https://visit.impure.com/space/#/dani/cities_population
In case you’re interested, all it needed is changing one of the visualization parameters from “true” to “false”.

Thanks again for your post and the rest of the blog.

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