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The Uneven Wave

Data Visualization

By: Sai Arun Modekurti, Kaiyi Sun, Vithun Geetha Vinu
Course: IAT 355 Introduction to Visual Analytics

Description: In 2020, most industries were just starting to experiment with AI. By 2025, it had become part of how things actually get made — games, ads, articles, all of it.

This project looks at what that shift actually looked like in practice. Not whether AI spread — it did — but what happened alongside it. Revenue, trust, job displacement, and regulation all moved in ways that weren't uniform, and the differences between industries turn out to be more interesting than the overall trend.

We looked at three industries across ten countries over six years. What we found is messier than the usual AI story, and more honest for it.