Earlier this week, I wrote a blog on GigaPan, a Carnegie Mellon project that artfully displayed time-elapse high-resolution images so that you could surface the embedded stories. Today, I read a blog by Nathan Yau of Flowing Data about a static high-resolution infographic about our global economy. Randall Munroe of xkcd meticulously created comparison charts of money nested in units of trillions, billions, and millions.
Fascinating! Zoom and pan! Enjoy! What insights did you discover?
Note the contrast of GigaPan with Munroe’s giga-money chart. For instance, you could add a time elapse feature to visualize changes over the decades. Did you know that 60% of the total wealth generated by mankind over the centuries was created since 1980? Now find that fact on giga-money!
