Visualizing Wealth

List of resources on “visualizing” the scale of wealth and numbers. (no order followed)

1. [English] Wealth, shown to scale (original) (translations¹)
2. Wealth Visualizer by Ben Winding
3. How Rich is Elon Musk? - Visualization of Extreme Wealth by Engaging Data
4. Instagram reel comparing wealth of US celebrities by Tia Wilson
5. Humphrey Yang uses rice grains to visualise a billion dollars in this YouTube Short, where one rice grain = $100,000.
6. YouTube Corridor Crew: VFX Artist Uses CGI to Reveal the True Scale of A BILLION!
7. Tom Scott helps visualize the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars in one dimension by traveling the length of a one-dimensional stack of dollar bills. YouTube: A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
8. Brilliant.org has a wonderful lesson called Exponents and Radicals in which helped me visualize the exponents on a number line.
9. Vaclav Smil in Size: How It Explains the World puts forward some brilliant facts and figures.
10. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil also has a small section on understanding the scale called “Appendix: Understanding Numbers (Orders of Magnitude).”