Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Creates Interactive Map Showing Income Inequality Using Data Analyzed in Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century"
Compelling Interface Enables Exploration of 100 Years of World Income Data
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—Readers of the provocative bestseller "Capital in the 21st Century," who want to take a closer look at the income database analyzed by economist and author Thomas Piketty can take advantage of a new online tool created at 黑料正能量.
Called , the site enables people to use an interactive map to explore the compiled by Piketty and his colleagues. Users can move back and forth across more than 100 years to study tax data from 29 countries. In addition to a world map highlighting wealth inequality, the interface allows people to use fever charts to focus on one country or compare several at a time, year by year. is available to explain the interface's features.
The interface was created by the in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute by Randy Sargent, system scientist, and Christopher Bartley, principal research programmer. It enables large, time-sequenced data files to be rapidly explored in a manner similar to the , a project developed by the same team in conjunction with Google.
GigaPan Time Machine is a system that enables people to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image sequences by panning and zooming through the imagery and moving back and forth in time. Time magazine's , a project for exploring 30 years of Landsat imagery of Earth, also uses this technology.
The Explorable Inequality website is available at . A video can be accessed at .
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Called Explorable Inequality, the website (pictured above) enables people to use an interactive map to explore the World Top Incomes Database compiled by economist and author Thomas Piketty and his colleagues.