"Us" being scholars presenting at the 2013 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. The map being a representation of the number of folks at the conference by country. The darker the red, the more people from institutions in that country will be showing up in lovely San Diego in October (presumably).
The United States of America has a strong showing, Antartica does not.
The data for this visualization was collected by:
- scraping the conference website
- obtaining location instutition by querying the Google Maps API with the self-reported instition information
- cleaning up the data and tossing out records the Google Maps API couldn't identify
- counting the total number of attendees by country
- modifying with reckless abandon Jason Davies's World Map from the Topojson example gallery. Here is a link to a gist containing the source for this page.
[('USA', 671),
('UK', 102),
('Canada', 100),
('The Netherlands', 59),
('Brazil', 51),
('Japan', 45),
('Denmark', 43),
('Norway', 41),
('Germany', 37),
('France', 29),
('Sweden', 21),
('Austria', 16),
('Mexico', 15),
('Australia', 12),
('Finland', 12),
('Italy', 11),
('Taiwan', 8),
('South Korea', 7),
('Israel', 5),
('Colombia', 5),
('Philippines', 5),
('Switzerland', 5),
('India', 5),
('Chile', 4),
('Spain', 4),
('Argentina', 3),
('China', 3),
('Portugal', 3),
('Czech Republic', 2),
('Singapore', 2),
('Belgium', 2),
('New Zealand', 2),
('Lithuania', 1),
('Ireland', 1),
('Nigeria', 1),
('Turkey', 1),
('Hong Kong', 1),
('Poland', 1),
('South Africa', 1),
('Sri Lanka', 1)]