
With the explosion of infographics and big data, maps aren't just about geography anymore. They can tell us all kinds of things about the human experience. National Geographic Channel’s new series "The Big Picture With Kal Penn" is all about finding the unexpected — and sometimes surprising — realities in both the world at large and our own backyard, revealed by crunching the numbers and finding new ways to visualize data. Host and producer Kal Penn is taking viewers on a journey to understand how things like money, sex, food, sports and crime influence our daily lives. Exploring and generating infographics from information banks and data analyses, we investigate different themes through the mapping of new data, the creative visualization of information, and in-depth personal stories with fascinating characters.
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Air Date: 2015-03-30
Explore how the small, rural town of St. Albans, Vermont, is making big money for drug dealers; how the local economy...
Air Date: 2015-03-30
We’re on a quest to dig up the goods, from the most remote ends of the earth to our own backyards. And we’re charting...
Air Date: 2015-04-06
All sex is not created equal, and some places are blessed with more of it than others. We travel to Hurley, Wisconsin...
Air Date: 2015-04-06
When an idea goes viral, it spreads like a disease. When a sickness goes viral, all of us are at risk. Whether it sta...
Air Date: 2015-04-13
Data and number crunching have taken over the world of sports. The highest proportion of NFL players comes from the s...
Air Date: 2015-04-13
As we build an overlapping map of natural disaster threats around the world, we make an unsettling discovery: Mother ...
Air Date: 2015-04-20
We explore the role LSD played in making Silicon Valley the hub of today's PC and Internet revolutions and journey to...
Air Date: 2015-04-20
We're building a plate of the world's most popular dishes, including going to the number one pizza town in the U.S. t...
Air Date: 2015-04-27
They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure. But in the right hands, all trash has the potential to be tr...
Air Date: 2015-05-04
At the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, a group of ambitious scientists is conducting research into how humans c...
Air Date: 2015-05-11
Think of the human body as a city unto itself, with buildings, utilities, traffic patterns and rules and regulations ...
Air Date: 2015-05-18
You’d think after thousands of years of exploring and mapping the earth that we’d know where everything is by now. We...