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History of the World in 100 Seconds is a video by Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin that uses data from 14,238 Wikipedia Articles. They pulled out every geotagged article and every reference to an event and cross referenced them to find every events with a corresponding location. In the video, a dot appears corresponding to all 14,238 events chronologically and according to location. At the end, the dots start appearing more and more rapidly like fireworks, and a recognizable map of the world as we know it materializes. The dots also start to resemble how cities look from above as they become more and more clustered. I admire this project both because of how they represented the information graphically, but also for the sheer volume of data they were able to analyze and represent.