Digital Disruption Video (Deloitte): Nice use of animated infographics.

Today I attended Web Afternoon Charlotte and was impressed by many of the presentations, including a talk by Nick Finck, of Deloitte Digital. Throughout the day, common themes emerged, centered around facing our fears and creating a better (digital) world that includes a good measure of disruption. 

As I reviewed information for this post, I came across a nicely-prepared video by Deloitte Australia.  It provides a number of animated infographics to highlight key factors related to digital disruption. Although the narrator focuses on the business world in Australia, given our global economy, the concepts ring true for the US and other countries.  (An infographic on this topic, created by Deloitte Digital can be found at the end of this post.)

Digital Disruption- Short fuse, big bang?



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Digital Disruption [Infographic]
Michelle Hernandez, Deloitte Digital Blog 5/7/12
Source: http://www.deloittedigital.com/blog/digital-disruption-infographic

The Clock is Ticking: Duarte's thought-provoking video info-graphic about the negative impact of the economy in Long Island (via Innovative Interactivity)

The Clock is Ticking from Long Island Index on Vimeo.
I came across the above video infographic on the Tracy Boyer's Innovative Interactivity blog. In a few minutes, it tells a story about how the economic downturn has impacted Long Island. 
My take-away from the video?   We are not provided an accurate or meaningful picture from traditional media sources about our nation's economic woes.  It is a good sign that the stock market is doing better, on balance, than in 2008, but the economic wounds run wide and deep.  These wounds need to be counted and presented in a way that makes sense to policy makers AND the rest of us!  If not, the cycle will repeat.  

Tracy discovered the video from a post on the Simple Complexity website:
The Clock is Ticking On Long Island: Infographic Video
Neal Levene, Simple Complexity, 11/22/10
"Simple Complexity: Making Simple Sense From Complex Data"
The video was created by Duarte, a company that focuses on visual means of information presentation. Duarte is known for supporting presentation literacy using VisualStory methodology.


Comment:  Wouldn't it be great if we could simply load data related to our own communities and regions and have it automatically feed into this sort of video info-graphic?!

Data and Information Visualization Resources for Economics, Finance, and the Current Crisis

I posted a variety of links to data and information visualization resources that might be helpful to those of you who are interested in exploring our current economic crisis:

Economic Sights and Sounds: Links to Data and Information Visualization resources for Economics, Finance, and the Current Crisis

I'm using the Economic Sights and Sounds blog as a repository of information and links for use in a collaborative interactive multimedia time-line of events surrounding the current situation.

Economic Sounds and Sights: Interactive Economic Timeline

As the economy spun out of control, I decided to gather information from a range of sources and disciplines, to help me understand the complexity of the events leading to the crisis.

The following post is a repository of some of I've collected so far:

The Celestial Economic Sphere, Dataviz for the Finance Biz, Truthiness, and Behavioral Finance, Gordon Gekko...

I'd like to create a collaborative interactive economic time-line someday. For more information, see the following post:

Collaborative Interactive Multimedia Timeline