Human Terrain
Population drawn as spikes on the map: height carries the count, so density becomes a landscape instead of a colour scale you have to decode.
No preview is available from the publisher, so this is a diagram of the chart type, not the artifact itself.
By
Matt Daniels, The Pudding · 2018
Where
Newsroom · Demography
Form
Interactive · to explore
Visual
Space, Length, Direct manipulation
You can
Pan and zoom the globe, Compare named cities
Data
Global population grids
Original