Jer Thorp’s The Colour Economy

Pitch Interactive Jer Thorp has created a collection of visualizations named based on Jer Thorp’s principle of “Colour Economy”, in which pixels of colors are treated as a virtual economy , and colors are treated as nations.

Taking actual human driven data, we mapped out a scenario where each trade between two states created a curved line between the traders. For example, we have the state of #4FB1AC in the nation of Aqua in our first iteration below. From observation, one can see that approximately 30% of their trade is with the nation of Purple (mostly with Purple’s #715E98 state). Each thumbnail below can be clicked to further explore that state’s trade.

I’m honestly not sure what the usefulness of this really it, but the charts are fairly beautiful and nice to look at.

via The Colour Economy – Pitch Interactive – 2009.

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 .