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Bar chart race: the most populous cities in the world
- ghouse 8y agoAnd here is where it came from: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b2fybb/animation_the_10_biggest_cities_in_the_world/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b2fybb/ani...
- shereadsthenews 8y agoNo, this is were it came from: https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the...
- samstave 8y agoCalling a slight BS: Tokyo was and other cities were firebombed to HELL in 1945. And ~~MILLIONS~~ (war-winners-numbers state 330,000 - but I suspect that number is not accurate, see: MacNamera's comments) were killed in the razing of tokyo and other japanese cities during WWII and not a single frame in that video shows a drop-back in population during WWII years.
- trynumber9 8y agoit is spelt McNamara
- samstave 8y agoThis totally invalidates my point. Thank you! Fyi - the edit but evaporates after a short period, this typos tend to stick around...
- 24gttghh 8y agoIndeed: http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/HISTORY/history03.htm http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/HISTORY/history03.ht... population was halved between 1940-45. But one cannot discount that perhaps most fled to the countryside rather than suffer further bombing...
- EB66 8y agoFun video, but at least towards the end the population numbers don't seem terribly accurate. The video counts the population for the greater metro area of a given city (e.g., 38 mil for Tokyo), but there's no mention of Seoul. The population for the Seoul metro is 25+ million, NYC metro is 20+ million, Moscow metro is 20+ million, etc.
- guelo 8y agoLooking at the data source[1] it only has Seoul data until 1991 and it is 10.463 million. [1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/johnburnmurdoch/4199dbe55095c3e13de8d5b2e5e5307a/raw/fa018b25c24b7b5f47fd0568937ff6c04e384786/city_populations https://gist.githubusercontent.com/johnburnmurdoch/4199dbe55...
- jashkenas 8y agoThis is a Guardian repost of a Financial Times video of a graphic by John Burn-Murdoch. You can watch (and tinker with, or fork) the original here: https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the... Since last week, folks have forked and published a whole bunch of fun versions, applying the form to different data sets: https://observablehq.com/search?query=Bar%20chart%20race https://observablehq.com/search?query=Bar%20chart%20race Some of my favorites are the baseball home run leaders (1), NFL receiving yards leaders (2), and global CO2 emissions leaders (3)... 1. https://observablehq.com/@darenwillman/bar-chart-race https://observablehq.com/@darenwillman/bar-chart-race 2. https://observablehq.com/@stu/bar-chart-race-nfl-receiving-yard-leaders https://observablehq.com/@stu/bar-chart-race-nfl-receiving-y... 3. https://observablehq.com/@drsimevans/bar-chart-race-the-countries-with-the-largest-co2-emissions https://observablehq.com/@drsimevans/bar-chart-race-the-coun...
- sctb 8y agoThanks, we've updated the link from https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/500-years-in-59-seconds-the-race-to-be-the-worlds-largest-city https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/500-years-in-....
- Jun8 8y agoInteresting to compare with large cities in ancient history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_throughout_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...), e.g. if we did the graphics for 3500BC - 2800BC, Uruk would be have been continually number 1. Sad thing is that, except for a few, many of these cities are gone: "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
- tzs 8y agoWhere's Tenochtitlan? Low estimates are around 200k population before the Spanish came, which is above several other cities listed at the start of the chart race.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoLooking at the population of London, the effects of the Industrial Revolution become immediately apparent.
- jpatokal 8y agoCute visualization, but the data is sketchy and handling of modern megalopolises is really inconsistent. If greater Tokyo is currently in the top spot at 38M, then greater Shanghai and greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) should be #2 and #3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_...