In response to the Guardian Data Blog – Environmental Hackday, I decided to take my first look at some data regarding the environment.  I originally envisaged this as a world map, looking at the difference between the 1950 actual to the 2030 prediction.

The main issue with this was that the visualisation did not allow an easy scale or difference, as most countries in WE/EE etc are very similiar % wise.  The disparity comes when you compare Africa to North America and suchlike.

Therefore below, is a very quick visualisation of the spread of populations, by country that exist in the ‘urban environment’.  To do this, I turned the original spreadsheet (Percentage of global population living in cities) into a 3 column layout of, Country, Population % and Year (To Be Published Soon).

I used a vertical layout, descending by the most % to least, so we can see that places like Monaco are obviously nigh 100% whereas in Burundi, in 2030 it is predicted that less than 25% of the population will be in cities.

[more to come - it's late - bad point about this - tooooo much information]

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