Basic Info

First Air: March 30, 2015

Rating: ⭐ 6.4/10 (5 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Last Episode

Name: Off the Map

Season: 1, Episode: 12

Air Date: 2015-05-18

Runtime: 23 min

You’d think after thousands of years of exploring and mapping the earth that we’d know where everything is by now. Well, we don’t. Not even close. We’re going on a global quest to reveal the mislabeled, the mysterious and the just plain missing places off the map. We travel to Washington, D.C., to discover that the U.S. government has its own maps, and they reveal a very different country where top secret installations are connected by unmarked roads and underground tunnels.

The Big Picture with Kal Penn

2015 1 seasons 12 episodes ⭐ 6.4/10 5 votes

Overview

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.