This project was made public in August 2015 and received significant attention from various media source (see link to main articles at the bottom of the page).
Latest project: The Globe of Economic Complexity http://t.co/qzFDmZeX7r coded by Owen Cornec @WikiGalaxy #webgl pic.twitter.com/jb9gyR6o3w
— Romain Vuillemot (@romsson) August 25, 2015
The Globe of Economic Complexity by Owen Cornec & Romain Vuillemot.https://t.co/iQhPHAoJ7j pic.twitter.com/IBs4mQzZVr
— Experiments with Google (@ExpWithGoogle) September 10, 2015
We’ve generated a lot of short GIF animation that aim at doing good justice to the various animation features we’ve used in the project.
![](/img/gif-globe-falling-sand.gif)
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We’ve presented the following poster at the IEEE Information Visualization Conference in Chicago in October 2015. We received a Best poster, honorable mention for it.
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The video below is a companion to the submitted and presented poster.
In the News
The project has received a tremendous attention in terms of unique visits but also in press coverage. Below are the mean articles we’ve collected ranging from tech blogs to mass medias.
- This Is What $15.3 Trillion of World Trade Looks Like, Vice Motherboard.
- Visualized: Global Trade As A Frenzy Of Color-Coded Pixels, Fastcodesign.
- Behold, $15 trillion of world trade in one interactive chart, Marketwatch.
- A new way of visualizing world trade, WEF.
- Visualized: Global Trade As A Frenzy Of Color-Coded Pixels, FactoDesign
- This Is What $15.3 Trillion of World Trade Looks Like, Motherboard / Vice
- “The Globe” Generates Innovative 3D Visualizations of World Trade, Harvard CID Press release.
- Chrome Experiment, Google Chrome.
- United Nations Comtrade Labs projects, United Nations.
- Information is Beautiful awards short list in interactive category
- Explore the world’s economy in Harvard’s trippy 3D map
- Contempla la magnitud de la economía mundial con este increíble mapa interactivo Gizmodo, ES.
- http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/26/3d-global-economics-map, Wired UK.
- https://www.nextnature.net/2015/08/visualizing-the-world-economy/ NextNature.
- http://www.ghy.com/trade-compliance/reimaging-the-economic-complexity-of-global-trade/, Ghy.
Related Publications
- Using Concrete Scales: A Framework for Visual Depiction of Complex Measures. Fanny Chevalier, Romain Vuillemot, Guia Gali.
Similar Projects
- WikiGalaxy: Explore Wikipedia in 3D, Owen Cornec.
- SandDance, Microsoft Research.