Honeycomb consists of server software that transforms data from a database into an information map that can be be displayed through any Web browser.
The Hive Group and Wikipedia bring you an Interactive Population Map.
The Most Incredible Tidbit We Learned While Building the Map: Russia is more than 100x as large as Bangladesh, but the two have very similiarly sized populations.
It’s the neat things like this that keep me coming back to Joel’s Blog time and time again!
Isn’t that funny? When that program was initially created it was used to quickly find out who was using up the most disk space on a server. I used it at my job.
I find this application of the program a LOT more fun!