HelpMeViz » Illustrator http://helpmeviz.com Helping people with everyday data visualizations Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:55:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 Urban, Population, Agriculture, and Land http://helpmeviz.com/2014/06/02/urban-population-agriculture-and-land/ http://helpmeviz.com/2014/06/02/urban-population-agriculture-and-land/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:09:29 +0000 http://helpmeviz.com/?p=467 I’m interested in the relationship between a country’s urban population (as percent of total) and the share of the country’s land in agriculture. In this World Bank data, I wanted to focus on some of the interesting outliers I discovered. For a specific visualization, I wanted to show quantitative and categorical values side by side. […]

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