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Following up today’s earlier post on the visualization of the Forbes Billionaire’s list, Macrofocus has created an interactive treemap that you can use on their site.

Based on the annual ranking of the individual fortunes in the world with a net worth above $1 billion compiled by Forbes magazine, we created a dataset that can directly be loaded into TreeMap. It contains information about their citizenship and residence, as well as their age and of course net worth (in $ billions).

Hit their site where you can download the dataset for viewing offline, or view it with therir online Java applet.

via Macrofocus TreeMap | Forbes World’s Billionaires.

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Forbes Magazine released a list of all 1101 Billionaires across the world in 2010, with all the familiar names and a few new entries.  Venkatraman.S took the data and dug through it a bit deeper and found a few interesting relationships.

One more interesting observation would be to find out how age and the wealth work together. So, i quickly divided age by wealth to find out the most ‘successful’ – ‘Success’ here is defined as those whose age/wealth factor is as close to 1. And i found that top 5 on this race are :

• William Gates III (Rank:2, Age:54, Worth:53, Success Factor:1.0)
• Carlos Slim Helu & family (Rank:1, Age:70, Worth:53.5, Success Factor:1.3)
• Warren Buffett (Rank:3, Age:79, Worth:47, Success Factor:1.7)
• Mukesh Ambani (Rank:4, Age:52, Worth:29, Success Factor:1.8)
• Eike Batista (Rank:8, Age:53, Worth:27, Success Factor:2.0)

via Origin > Identity > Destiny: World’s Billionaires Visualization.

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Forbes Magazine asked frog design what the future (year 2020) could look like, and that led to a workshop in San Francisco where futurists, journalist, and others came together to envision it.  The result is an online feature called ‘Your Life in 2010″, and it now available online for all to revel in it’s foresight and wackiness.

In the future nearly every visible thing will be cataloged and indexed, ready to be instantly identified and described to us. Want to go shopping? In the future we won’t need big retail stores with aisles of objects on display. We’ll be able to shop out in the world (see image, above). Do you like that new car you saw drive by? Or those cool shoes on the woman sitting across the room? All you’ll have to do is look at it and your mobile handset or AR-equipped eyeglasses will identify the object and look up the best price and retailer.

While I don’t see many people getting brain implants in order to track their “Whuffie”, some of the other ideas aren’t half bad.

via Envisioning Your Future in 2020 | Blog | design mind.

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