What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?: Visualizing Extreme Wealth

<p>The word “billion” is a mathematical abstraction related to “big,” but it is difficult to understand the vast difference in value between one million and one billion; even harder to understand the vast difference in purchasing power between one billion dollars, and the average U.S. yearly income. Perhaps most difficult to conceive of is what that purchasing power and huge mass of capital translates to in terms of <em>power</em>. This project blends design, text, facts, and figures into an interactive narrative website that helps the user better understand their position in relation to extreme wealth: <a href="https://whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website" target="_blank">https://whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website/</a> <br /><br /> The site incorporates the ScrollMagic, D3, jQuery, and GSAP libraries. Data was collected from a variety of publicly available sources. Website code, data, and additional notes can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/williexwill/MS_Capstone" target="_blank">https://github.com/williexwill/MS_Capstone </a></p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Data Analysis & Visualization

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Luckman, William Mahoney

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Michelle McSweeney

• Communication Technology and New Media
• Databases and Information Systems
• Data Science
• Graphic Communications
• Graphic Design
• Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Income Distribution
• Inequality and Stratification
• Interactive Arts
• Interdisciplinary Arts and Media
• Labor Economics
• Mass Communication
• Political Economy
• Political Theory
• Politics and Social Change
• Programming Languages and Compilers
• Science and Technology Studies
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Social Influence and Political Communication
• data visualization
• wealth inequality
• information graphics
• accumulation

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5694

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-6800