Friday, October 16, 2009

Fascinating Visualization...


For the past year or so we've all been inundated by a never-ending series of gigantic financial numbers – $300B for this, $750B for that, $1.2T for that.  Getting any sort of understanding about these numbers is challenging; I, for one, will take any help I can get.

So when I saw this graphic, I found it instantly appealing.  By visualizing the relative amounts of money as different sized colored polygons, the authors have put the data in a form that our brains can easily digest.

Take a tour!  And check out the whole site -- it's full of interesting visualizations like this...

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