The Size of the Stimulus

Over at the “Life at HOK”, they’ve got an interesting chart of the size of the Stimulus package in physical terms.

We all know that $780 billion dollars is a LOT of money….but how much is it in architectural terms? Check out this cool visualization sent to me by Ming Hu in the DC office (Hi Ming – thanks for the great visualization!) – haven’t verified the accuracy and don’t know where it originated, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless:

At the end, he correlates the size of the stimulus to approximately the same size as the World Trade Center.

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .