Ya'll have probably heard me rail, in my math-dorky way, about how people accept so many of our political problems and wrong-headed aspects of foreign policy because they don't understand numbers and statistics. Hence the phrase "5 trillion dollar deficit" doesn't mean much to them, or they don't get what they may be missing out on when the president gets $87,000,000,000 to spend on Iraq.
This site bucks that sad, sad trend in a wonderful way. Some of their maps are beautiful and telling. I have already wasted pathetic amounts of time there. I don't think they do a perfect job, and I could nitpick, but I do think they do a good job, which is rare. Go! Know that beauty is truth when it's good statistical information that is well presented!
Posted by meta at September 27, 2003 01:06 AM