Where in the world should you travel - or perhaps even relocate - to
pay less, earn more, and improve your living conditions?
To help you answer this complex question, Macrofocus releases
InfoScope, a free interactive tool for visually analyzing prices
and earnings around the world. InfoScope is available at no charge
for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems at:
http://www.macrofocus.com/cityoscope/
Using data surveyed by the UBS Economic Research department,
InfoScope allows users to easily analyze, compare, query, and
explore prices and earnings indicators of 58 cities around the world.
InfoScope is a highly interactive visualization tool with the
following key characteristics:
- it shows the big picture by providing an overview of the essential
relationships between cities
- it encourages the explorative discovery of interesting features and
unexpected patterns
- it avoids the feeling of being lost in details by embedding them in
the overall context
- it supports our way of thinking and working by taking advantage of
the human perceptual abilities
Macrofocus GmbH specializes in solutions that help people such as
analysts, managers, knowledge workers, or consumers to understand and
manage the growing amounts of complex information that they are faced
with. Macrofocus develops interactive visualization systems that
enable faster and better-informed decisions, and support the human
thinking process. Macrofocus GmbH is a privately held company based in
Zurich, Switzerland.