Ezra Klein, September 23, 2014: “A Good visualization helps you see what the data is telling you. The best visualizations help you you see things you never thought the data would tell you. These 22 charts and maps were, at least for me, in that category: all of them told me something I found surprising. Some of them genuinely changed the way I think about the world.”

• Chart titles include: More than half the world’s population lives inside this circle; The British have invaded almost every country on earth; The wealthiest American in every state; Switzerland is the best place to be born; Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States are the only countries that don’t use the metric system; Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States are the only countries that don’t use the metric system; America is so big that its states are the size of countries; Much of America in uninhabited; The map of world wealth; Fewer people are dying from war than ever before; The most dangerous drugs in America are perfectly legal; The Philippines is the world’s most emotional country. Singapore is its least; Germany and Japan have the world’s oldest populations. Niger has the youngest; Snapchat is more popular than Twitter among Millenials; We’ve cut childhood mortality almost in half since 1990….