Eight billion of us, almost all in the same narrow strip across South and East Asia. Globe pulsed by the diurnal rhythm of cities, lit by every Wikipedia edit as it happens. A tree showing every known language. A point cloud where each dot is a thousand people. Demography as something you can feel.
Cities pulse with the diurnal rhythm of humanity — regions dim as people sleep, brighten as they wake; Wikipedia edit-flares fire at language-region centroids (not exact edit locations).
Every person on Earth as one pixel-particle (1:1000 scale). Eight billion points, almost all in a narrow strip across South and East Asia.
3D dendrogram of human language families — Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and more — growing from a common root. Click any leaf to hear "hello" via browser TTS.