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# Disruption Visualized
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/disruption-visualized/
- Published: 2015-06-18T13:23:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-30T10:39:55.000Z
- Description: An amazing and interactive graphic on how things change.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Dataviz, Technology, Trends, Disruption, The Visual Organization

Few things tell a story like a picture, *especially an interactive one*. It's a key point in *The Visual Organization*. Static graphs don't encourage data discovery and exploration as much as those that respond to user input.

To this end, check out the neat dataviz below from [*The Economist*](https://www.economist.com/techfirms?ref=philsimon.com):

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/econ-1.png)

Click around and you can see how companies' market caps changed over time. You can see absolute numbers, relative numbers, and percentages.

## Simon Says

[Nathan Myhrvold](https://www.wired.com/2007/11/analysts-dont-k/?ref=philsimon.com) was right after all. Apple was pretty much dead in 1997\. Who would have expected such a comeback?

In short, it's chock-full of interesting data and trends. You could easily talk for hours about all of the ideas that this dataviz sparks, and that's exactly the point.