Superb work presenting such big numbers in a 'graspable' way. I wonder what techniques the artist used to generate some of the more complicated images.

Now imagine those visualizations coupled with something like Seadragon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ra5tp7K--I

Are these statistics publicly available? I'd like to verify them because they seem too big. For example, 106,000 aluminum cans used every 30 seconds seems off by an order of magnitude.

I'm in it for the stats.

2 million bottles every 5 minutes, in the US alone? That's over 200,000,000,000 a year.

Absolutely stunning. The statistics are almost as interesting as the visualizations.

same idea with Star Wars http://gizmodo.com/366573/skywalker-last-supper-painting-mad...

2000000 bottles / 5 minutes = 400,000 bottles / minute

400000 * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day = 576,000,000 bottles a day.

576 Million bottles / 300 million americans = 1.92 bottles per American per day?

I have a hard time buying that.