Translating worlds – Corriere della Sera – La Lettura

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Corriere della Sera – La Lettura
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Translating
worlds

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement on the Sunday edition of "Corriere Della Sera".

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The visualization shows the influence of major world languages. The first 30 languages by number of translated books have been selected. The languages are ordered on x-axis by GDP per capita and on y-axis by total population speaking the language. GDP has been calculated using the data referring to the population speaking the language. Per each language are displayed: number of books translated from the language, number of books translated to the language, connection between the language and the main translation.

Sources:

language.media.mit.edu
pnas.orgstats.wikimedia.org
unesco.org

A project by Federica Fragapane and Francesco Majno