Global Culture

The top navigation is now featuring a new section called countries: An interactive map showing a visualization of how often our posts have mentioned each country in the world, darker tones used for those with higher number.

The relevance of this feature goes beyond facilitating the navigation around the site. It helps emphasize the importance of including as many sources as possible within our posts in order to achieve a truly global discussion. I hope that visitors from those countries that have not been mentioned will react to this visualization by submitting a collaboration.

Over the next little while I expect to improve this feature by adding other ways of visualizing the rich set of data that has been discussed throughout the posts.

Thanks to John at backspace.com for the map technology and the useful documentation on how to customize it.