What happens when you depict a microloan as a tiny speck of light on a world map, going from one country to another? And then you multiply that by 620,000 lenders and 615,000 borrowers who were microfinanced via the innovative organization Kiva (kiva.org)?
Check out this creation by Kiva on Vimeo which depicts five+ years of Kiva activity. According to one of the creators,
It was done with PHP using GD libraries… unfortunately, it wasn’t as simple as just running some software to do it automatically. The engineers who worked on it wrote all the code to create the images then used Amazon’s Elastic Cloud service to do all the rendering of the frames. It was a massive amount of data to process!
