Chris Jordan’s TEDTalk 2008 – Visualizing Our World

Chris Jordan has created several fantastic visualizations bringing some of most staggering minute statistics into the forefront, and for his efforts managed to get invited to TED2008 to present his work and ideology.  The video is online.

Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.

Chris Jordan runs the numbers on modern American life — making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data about our stuff.

See the full talk (11 minutes) after the break.

via Cool Infographics: Chris Jordan’s TEDTalk 2008 – Visualizing Our World [video].

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 .