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...
Labels:
Finance,
Visualization
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