Sunday, March 27, 2011

Visual World History Via Wikipedia Is Incredible

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.



Wow, this is amazing. This history of the world in 100 seconds.

From ragtag.com:

Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history.