Shopify’s live streaming the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales frenzy
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/24/shopifys-live-streaming-the-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-sales-frenzy/
Ever wonder what Black Friday’s consumerist rush looks like in real time? Now you can see it visualized in the stream above, which is a visualization of sales occurring on Shopify’s platform across its many merchants globally.
Those dots represent sales in actual merchant stores, and the lines indicate where the buyers are coming from relative to where the shops are based. As you can see, it’s a pretty international picture, though by far the area lighting up the most for this particularly North American consumer shopping spree day is, unsurprisingly, North America.