This animated gif was made with Data Gif Maker by Google News Lab. With this online tool you can create comparison gifs in seconds.
Here is an online version of the example above.
Make Your Own Comparison
Follow this short tutorial and you'll be able to make your nifty animation.
- First enter left and right term and define their colours.
- Then enter data series for both terms.
- Enter description of values.
- Choose whether the values are percentages or they should be added.
- Press Launch Comparisons button
For my example I entered percentages as they were three times during the poll dubbed Battle of Digital Currencies:
You can see the results online or download them as an animated gif in high or low resolution.
The file with a high resolution gif of this comparison takes 3.4 MB of your disk.
Now Is Your Turn
Make some splendid gifs :)
Is This Tool Useful?
I don't know. It is a display of what can be done fairly quickly. With some added cosmetics like logos, multiple series, titles, legends, whatnot, ... it can become a presentation in itself.
Final Question
Do Google engineers really have too much spare time? Or is it one of their tasks at work to goof around?