The Quintessence of Ham

Because I live under a rock (Viet­nam), I only recently dis­cov­ered the Google Charts API. When I saw that it sup­ported maps, I thought it might be fun to plot the sales data for Zotero File Stor­age pro­vided by the non­profit cor­po­ra­tion I started along with a bunch of other aca­d­e­mics. Bear in mind that these maps only reflect the billing addresses asso­ci­ated with pur­chasers of Zotero stor­age. Zotero’s gen­eral user base is even more glob­ally dis­trib­uted and sev­eral orders of mag­ni­tude larger than the sub­set depicted here. Nonethe­less the results are stun­ning, I think, and some­thing that pleas­antly reminds me of the last throes of a game of Risk. We have work to do in Africa and the Mid­dle East. Click the thumb­nails below for full-size, detailed images.