{"id":2349,"date":"2015-09-17T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2015-09-22T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:27:06","slug":"summer-throwback-two-big-mac-index-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/summer-throwback-two-big-mac-index-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Throwback Two: Big Mac Index VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this\u00a0summer, I was interning in The Economist Media Lab. It’s a tight team of Ron Diorio, Frank J. Andrejasich, and\u00a0Ziv Schneider<\/a>. The goal of this internship is exploring how The Economist can use virtual reality to enhance the editorial piece, reach broader audience, and create unusual experience.<\/p>\n

Because of my previous 3D data visualization<\/a> experiments, The Economist is interested how they can do data viz in VR, since data representation is one of their forte. Luckily, I could choose what I want to create, so I picked Big Mac Index. Why? Because it is BURGER<\/span><\/em> dude. BURGER<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

About Big Mac Index:<\/p>\n

One of the most famous index of The Economist. The earliest data starts\u00a0from<\/em>\u00a0September 1986, and it has been used as a semi-humorous illustration of purchasing power parity (PPP). It makes exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For this, I use the every half a year data since 2000, and the countries\u00a0include:\u00a0Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Euro area, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, and United States.<\/p>\n