An ugly, but insightful, oil spill infographic
People have trouble visualizing large numbers of things. After looking at a terrible infographic on cnbc, I decided to take the ugly-but-works approach. Most people have a feeling for how large the twin towers are, so I decided to map the amount of oil in numbers of world trade center towers. It came out less than I expected, just over 40% of a single World Trade Center’s volume.
This comes back to something I think about often, when it comes to infographics there is often a fight between useful and pretty.
For extra understanding, click here to see a link showing the building footprint in red on a map that you can zoom in and out on. Really shows you the scale of the earth to how much oil was spilled.
