2.1 Countries

Worldboard tells the stories of 200+ modern countries across the globe. Each country has its own page and corresponding data.

2.2 Timeline

Drag the timeline slider in the user interface to see how countries have evolved over time.

2.3 Categories

Country data is grouped into categories: Economy, Education, Elections, Immigration, Territory, Health, and Energy. Metrics from these categories can help understand the status of a nation.

2.4 Components

Each category has a set of visual "components" (charts, maps, and tables) that can be added to the dashboard in Sandbox mode or displayed all at once in Full or Narrow view. Create custom dashboards to analyze specific trends.

2.5 WorldDB

WorldDB is the central collection of all sourced data points. Data points have a country id, metric id, value, source, and filepath.

2.6 Nation Tables

Nation Tables will allow users to see which data has been sourced for a country and which needs to be found. Crowdsourced data can be submitted, added to WorldDB, then the Nation Table and Worldboards will be updated.

3.1 Microhistory

Microhistory is history as a quantitative trajectory, history as a precise log of measurements. This is not world history. This is history of a reproducible system. If we have good enough measurements on the past, then we have a better prediction of the future in an extremely literal sense.

3.2 Macrohistory

Macrohistory is the history of a non‑reproducible system, one which has too many variables to easily be reset and replayed from the beginning. The world is this type of system. Worldboard is an instrument to understand patterns throughout the world. Science progresses by better instrumentation. Use Worldboard to discover patterns hidden in world history.

3.3 Cryptohistory

Ultimately all historical data should be ingrained in a blockchain. This blockchain will serve as a digital certificate of historical events.

3.4 Incentives

There are huge incentives to record all this data. Future historians will study these digital logs to understand what we were like as a civilization.

3.5 Epistemology

Information must come from verifiable, reliable sources. Knowledge is accepted if it is published by reputable institutions and can be traced to primary data. Worldboard, as a maximally truth seeking project, specializes in objective quantifiable data rather than subjective text information.

3.6 Measurement

Measurements are performed by our cited sources (government data, research, etc.). If the measurement is off, the whole system is broken, so great care must go into the validation and authentication of the data we display. Worldboard is maximally truth seeking and will not tolerate fake data or political intervention.

3.7 Reductionism

If you think Worldboard is "reductionist" you are correct. By no means can you tell the story of a nation just by these metrics. Use your own discretion to come to conclusions about what this data means in a broader context. Worldboard is your toolset to analyze the world.