In TOK we began to investigate how statistics relates to Reason as our Way of Knowing. Two people came to mind:
Hans Rosling and his website Gapminder.org
Chris Jordan and his Running the Numbers (An American Self-Portrait) Project. On his website he describes the project:
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
Below is one example, but the experience is best navigated on this website powered by Seadragon, where you can zoom in on every picture.
Plastic Bottles, 2007
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
