Visualization of the credit crisis

Are you still trying to get your head around the complexities of the global economic crisis? A lot of people have been trying to explain different aspects of the financial crisis in "simple terms" though not always with great success. I pointed to this whiteboard presentation by Paddy Hirsch in October called "Financial Crisis 101: CDOs explained" which does a good job explaining a complex issue (obviously not in great depth) while using a whiteboard for illustrating the concepts. Today Leonardo pointed me to a very interesting fast-paced presentation called "The Crisis of Credit Visualized." The presentation was created by Jonathan Jarvis, a designer and graduate student from Los Angles. At times the pace may even be a bit too fast, and the sound effects too numerous, but I say well done, Jarvis. You may get some ideas from this presentation; definitely worth a look. Short and simple overview.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Comments

[Bruno]

Hi !

Nice job !

You could have a look to this other video which illustrate how consumption has changed since the fifties.
Dramatic Shift in Marketing Reality :
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[Jan Schultink]

This is another (great) example of a new presentation "discipline" that is emerging: getting your message across without a presenter being present. Mixing "Zen" presentation and traditional film/TV animation techniques to get to a communication vehicle that is clear and captivating at the same time (preventing you to click away mid-way, an option a polite person does not have when sitting in alive presentation)

[Robert]

Government Got Involved With Loans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAuOEdttjZQ

[Jon Thomas]

Very nice. Everyone appreciates simplification and visual support. I agree, too many sound effects, but still very cool.

JT

[Steve L]

I disagree, I thought it was spot on - a brilliant animation with just the right amount of effects. I finally understand what's going on with the "credit crisis"

[Albert]

Incredible! The part about leverage was perhaps a bit lengthy, but otherwise it was all clear while keeping a fast pace.

I want to see more presentations of complex flows just like this one. A web site full of them could make someone lots of money. ;)

[Greg Stewart]

I thought the presentation was thoroughly engaging and entertaining. I was rapt watching it to the end, and most importantly - I learned a great way to explain the crunch.

Tools like he used are a real boon to getting complex ideas across. I found another one recently, and featured it on www.clarityrules.com. Garr - I think you and your readers will love it (and no, I don't have anything to do with the company.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

Prezi: Coolest presentation tool of 2009

"Focus too much on the details and your audience might not get the big picture. But focus too much on the big picture and they might miss those devilish details."

I've seen the future.

After reading this, you will have too.

The future is Prezi.
Prezi describes itself as "A Zooming Editor for Stunning Presentations."
I watched a couple of presentations in their showcase, and they're right.

Do you know what? Just stop reading this and click through. Hit the logo and watch the video on the opening screen. That tells you why. Then scroll down and click on the one called "About Perspective". It tells you how.

Here it is again: Prezi

It will explain itself. If you aren't jumping out of your skin with interest, then in a year or two when this becomes more mainstream, you'll say to yourself

"Oh yeah. I remember reading about that on Clarity Rules. I see what he was on about now..."

Don't be that person. You'll feel foolish. Check it out.

We've come a long way in the last couple years. Vivid images and big type are supplanting bullet points. Succinct well thought out key messages are supplanting gratuitous 'thud factor'.

But big-picture, big-text, clean design style (a la Presentation Zen) and the 10-20-30 rule style (though still among my very favourite things) are great for pitches, they're great for keynotes, but you have to pick the medium to match the message, and as presentation techniques, they can sometimes fall short when it comes to presenting detailed information. Indeed, Nancy Duarte's top guess in her 'Five Predictions for Presentations in 2009" was that tools for complex presentations would have to evolve this year.

It's true. New techniques have to be added to the presenter's arsenal. Zooming interfaces like Prezi just might be one of those techniques.

It is just in Beta, and to my knowledge not yet commercially available, but it appears that Prezi allows you to design an entire presentation on a page, then using movement, magnification, orientation and position, lets you zoom in, out and around your presentation to tell a story. Indeed the 'zi' in Prezi stands for "Zoom Interface". They were originally going to call the product "Zui" for Zoom User Interface, but people found it too hard to pronounce. Prezi it is.

[Yuri]

The Traveling Telemprompter

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19663.html

[daniel]

I loved this video, It made the whole crisis much clearer!

Maybe my site http://recessionjunction.com would compliment it as a humorous side.

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