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Real-Time Map Of Shopify Transactions On Black Friday 2020


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

The interactive map above shows real-time Sales per minute (in USD) across all of Shopify’s Merchants on Black Friday 2020. At the time of writing Shopify Merchants were processing 13,634 orders per minute resulting in sales of $1,339,111. That’s over $80 million per hour! Moreover: Shopify will offset all carbon emissions from the delivery of […]

Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

Map created by reddit user Speech500 The map shows just how big London’s economy is. Each of the coloured areas has an economy that is roughly equal to London’s GDP figure of £487 billion ($600 billion) in 2018.

What 1 Minute of Card Payments Looks Like In The US


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

The video above shows 1 minute worth of payments processed by Square on Feb 13, 2020 colour codded to the type of business that processed the payment. Businesses include everything from veterinary services to doctors to restaurants to recreation and legal services. For those in the UK you can see how Square card readers compare […]

Watch China Overtake The US As The World’s Major Trading Partner


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: July 3, 2025

Map created by Roland Rajah at the Lowy InstituteThe animated map above shows how quickly China overtook the US to become the largest trading partner for the vast majority of the world’s countries. It covers the period between 1980 and 2018 and countries change colour depending on whether they trade more with the US (blue) […]

Which Countries Are Richer/Poorer Than Kazakhstan?


By: Ian Wright | Last Updated: April 25, 2025

Map created by reddit user abu_doubleu The map above shows which countries are richer (in green) and poorer (in red) than Kazakhstan based on GDP per capita in PPP dollars in 2017. At $26,410 per person, Kazakhstan is actually richer than you may think.

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