Facilitated by improved data access and visualization software, infographics are today the pinnacle of the saying ‘a picture speaks a thousand words‘.
The image below is a representation of the web of debt between several key European economies, having at the center a group of countries currently called PIIGS: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.

Source: The New York Times, 2010
References:
New York Times (2010), Europe’s Web of Debt, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02marsh.html, accessed 24/22/2010



