The CIA Factbook is full of data in tables about the world. Below I downloaded CO₂ emissions from 207 world regions and visualized them in Excel and with my prototype software.

Excel	3D Metrics

The added value is to be understood in an evolutionary context. First we put data into tables, then we learned to visualize them as curves which, as an image, immediately tell us more than a series of data.

Then spreadsheet programs like Excel perfected the process of visualizing data by offering different kinds of charts.

The value that the 3d metric approach adds, lies on the level of additional visual and metric information:

Additional visual and metric information provided by 3d metric screens:

• the height of individual frames
• the width of individual frames
• the diagonal distances between frames
• the slope and shape of the line that the bottom right corners of the frames create
• scope for further quantifications through other parameters.