> Turns even the largest data into images, accurately
The first image, the image of the USA, seems really mis-representative to me. LA and NYC should be way way way more bright in relation to everything else than the entire area east of the Mississippi.
At least to my eyes that map makes it look like parts of Denver, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and the San Joaquin Valley are just as dense as Manhattan.
Atlanta's population density 630 per square mile
Manhattan's population density 70826 per square mile
It seems like an accurate data image would have Atlanta's brightness 1/100th of Manhattan's. Basically it looks like they saturated out at around 250 people do anything over 250 people is the same brightness.