- WolframAlpha.com query of Religions by Country
- WA returned percentages from China to Hungary
- I transcribed most common religions to spreadhseet - WolframAlpha.com query of Population by Country
- the returned list shows (1) is for Population > 10M - (population)*(percent) to get Religion Population
- posted screenshot and spreadsheet on Google Docs
- mapped it using Google Fusion Tables the following:
World population for all countries over 10 million:
Religions population by country also for Islam:
See above how the impact of Islam, high in percentage from North Africa to Indonesia, is muted or even displaced when factored by population and area - if Pakistan came as no surprise India did to me - what surprised me most, however, was the very low percentage and population for Judaism (assuming the reported numbers are correct of course, for example the percentages for China don't add up to 100 and leave 'other' at almost 50%!).
Is it just me or does the USA say Kampuchea for everyone.
ReplyDeleteSeems like there are times when a simple GIS wins after all ;-)
Kampuchea is the local name, Cambodia was the colonial name recorded in WA results - I took the liberty to correct it as, for ex., they had the correct name for Mayanmar (colonial Burma).
ReplyDeleteNeat stuff Andrew
ReplyDeleteIan - USA isn't labelled as Kampuchea so much as replaced by it: if you do a mouseover you get the Kampuchea population data.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice example of using Fusion Tables, although what are shown as percentages are actually proportions.
Aha! Thanks Oliver I get Ian's comment now, d-oh! It may be an error in Google geocoding when I load up the data, let me double-check my spreadsheet however, perhaps reload and see...
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for this! I haven't been this moved by a blog for a long time! You’ve got it, whatever that means in blogging. Anyway, You are definitely someone that has something to say that people need to hear. Keep up the good work!
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Hats-off to Geographical mapping system.this blog has a very wonderful example of using the fusion tables we can get lot of information from this blog,well done.
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