The True Size

UK climate data scientist Neil Kaye has animated a map of the world that shows the distorted sizes of countries due to the Mercator Projection, and then their true sizes. For example: in reality, Greenland is not larger than Africa...

https://twitter.com/neilrkaye/status/1464874387698552832

The Average Colors of the World

Erin Davis creates data visualizations to, as she puts it, "express my weird arty side and cold analytical side in one nice package." And this is a fascinating visualization: she used satellite imagery from the Sentinel-2 satellite to average out the colors it sees in various countries and continents around the world. It sure is easy to see where the dry regions are...

https://erdavis.com/2021/06/26/average-colors-of-the-world/