Data Village — Data Stories
Tap on a house to go in. Each one has a true story of someone who changed the world with data… Interactive Data Stories on MyLeoNes: real open data, animated.
Tap on a house to go in. Each one has a true story of someone who changed the world with data, key ideas, a data toy, a challenge for you to try at home, and some questions.
- Florence’s Lamp — Florence Nightingale was a nurse and also a brilliant chart maker. She used numbers to save lives.
- The Broad Street Pump — A London doctor drew a map and discovered where a terrible illness was coming from: the water.
- Playfair’s Workshop — Can you imagine a world with no bar charts? William Playfair invented some of the charts we use every day.
- Minard’s Map — A French engineer told a very sad story with one drawing: Napoleon’s march to Russia.
- The Counting Machine — Counting millions of people by hand took years. Herman Hollerith invented a machine with punch cards.
- The 1936 Poll — A magazine asked millions of people and got it wrong. One young man asked far fewer and got it right. How?
- The Weather Station — A ship’s captain wanted to save sailors from storms. That’s how weather forecasts were born.
- The Island of Stars — One astronomer measured the sky for years and another found the rules of the planets in those numbers.
- The Bubble Stage — Hans Rosling made bubbles dance on a screen and showed that the world had changed much more than we think.
- The Chart Magnifier — A chart can tell the truth but still trick you. Here you’ll learn to spot the tricks.
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