Here’s a great little video by the always entertaining Prof. Hans Rosling where he uses his Gapminder software to demonstrate the disproportionate coverage of the Swine Flu in the media compared to other diseases such as TB.
The New York Times created an interactive map that shows where the outbreaks of the Swine Flue are located.
These types of epidemiological maps have been around for a while. In fact, they were the very first examples of geographic representations of data. Probably the most famous example is John Snow’s map of the 1854 Cholera outbreak in [...]