Data visualisation – The Typical Human

At a workshop run by David McCandless at Webstock recently one of the ideas that came out of group brainstorming sessions was what the average human looks like.

We wanted to look at the typical human at different ages, in different countries; at how many limbs they had, how well they could see, what living aids they used and so on.

Someone may or may not go ahead with that idea.

In the meantime, National Geographic has taken care of the first part of it – what the typical human looks like.

And they’ve looked at how much space the 7 billion humans take up on planet Earth.