The Humanity Globe: World Population Density per 30km^2

Posted on by Robin Edgar

This visualization was created in **R** using the **rayrender** and **rayshader** packages to render the 3D image, and **ffmpeg** to combine the images into a video and add text. You can see close-ups of 6 continents in the following tweet thread:

https://twitter.com/tylermorganwall/status/1427642504082599942

The data source is the GPW-v4 population density dataset, at 15 minute (30km) increments:

Data:

https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4

Rayshader:

http://www.github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader

Rayrender:

http://www.github.com/tylermorganwall/rayrender

Here’s a link to the R code used to generate the visualization:

https://gist.github.com/tylermorganwall/3ee1c6e2a5dff19aca7836c05cbbf9ac

Source: The Humanity Globe: World Population Density per 30km^2 [OC] – Reddit Swaglett

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