Visualizing Economics
Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible
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Change in Home Prices: 2001-2008 (NYTimes)
From New York Times Economix blog. The change in home prices for the previous 12 months for 20 US cities from 2001-2008. I took the graph for each city and order them by the change in home prices from Oct 2007 - Oct 2008. The blue bars is each citys data while the gray is the 20-city average. {Click …
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Employment of 25-54 yrs vs 55 and over: 2004-2008
Building on Employment of Young vs Old graph, this week I am comparing of the number of employed 25-54 year olds to number of workers above 55. The top graph is the ratio of 25-54 year olds employed for everyone over 55 employed. The second graph shows just the total number employed by age. {Click o …
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Employment of Young vs Old: 2004-2008
Inspired by last weeks graph on Job Loss by Age, I created this 5 year comparison of the number of employed 16-17 year olds to number of workers above 75. There are two methods for measuring 16-17 year olds: not seasonally adjusted and seasonally adjusted which removes the effects of events like sum …
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Job Loss by Age: 2007-2008 (NYTimes)
New York Times article and graphic describing how job loss has affected younger people while older workers have gained jobs from 2007 to 2008. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Technorati Tags: United States, UnemploymentDownload FREE ePoster: Av …
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Two Methods to Measure Unemployment: 1948 - Nov 2008
Two unemployment series: U-3 the official unemployment rate in blue and U-6 the broadest definition of unemployment (includes marginally attached workers and people employed part-time for economic reasons) in orange. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Data from Bureau of Labor Statisti …
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Video looking at cost of Iraq war
While not a traditional data visualization, this is a slick video looking at the cost to the US for the War in Iraq from Three Trillion Dollar War. Found via infosthetics.com Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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North America Income, Education, Employment: 2006
Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs u …
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US Economy: 1920-2008 (Good Magazine)
Good Magazine in collaboration with Nigel Holmes created this historical survey of the US economy. The graph shows the GDP (grey) and the National Debt: real dollars (solid red line) and actual dollars (dotted red line) {Click on the image to take a closer look} Technorati Tags: United States, …
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Falling into a recession: Unemployment Feb-Sep 2008
Here is a series of maps showing the unemployment rate by state from February to September of this year. This was created using screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map {Click on the image to take a closer look} Technorati Tags: United States, Unemployment, RecessionDow …
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Income Distribution Animation
Another video tackling Income Distribution in the US: Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Unemployment and Presidential Elections: 1980 - 2008
Screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map showing the unemployment rate by state 2 months before the presidential election since 1980. The party in power and the party that eventual won the White House is listed below each map. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Tec …
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Compare 12 Bear Markets (S&P 500) Aug 1929 - Oct 2008
Screenshot from a New York Times Interactive Graphic How This Bear Market Compares by Amanda Cox, Xaquín G.V. and David Leonhardt that shows the percentage drop in the S&P 500 during the last 12 bear markets. The current market drop is highlighted in red, while the drop after 1929 is highlighted …
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Money Supply Ratio: Jan 1958 - Sep 2008
A graph suggested by a reader, Chuck Beach, pointing out the historical high of the ratio of two measurements of the Money Supply M2/M1 M1 = is the narrowest measurement of the amount of money in circulation and money held in current (checking) accounts. M2 = M1 plus money held in savings account or …
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Credit Swaps Insurance Market: 2000-2007
From a NY Times article on Credit Swaps from February 2008. It is worth reading for its primer on credit swaps and how it predicts the events of the current credit crisis. Technorati Tags: Credit SwapsDownload FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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Flashback-Economy
Here is a site that gives you an snapshot of the economy for the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. For example when I was born: 1971 Federal spending: $210,170,000,000 Federal debt: $408,200,000,000 Inflation: 5.7% Unemployment: 4.9% Median Household Income: $9,028 Cost of a new ho …
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Six month change in foreclosures: August 2008
Screenshot from Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage Conditions in the United States New York Federal Reserve showing six month change in foreclosures: from March - August 2008. Red - Conditions have worsened Green - Conditions have improved Yellow - No change (within 0.05%) Technorati Tags: United St …
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Difference between US 3-Month T-bills vs Fed Funds: 1956-2008
I plotted the historical spread between Effective Fed Funds rate and US 3-Month T-bills back to 1956 using the weekly average. This a companion graph to Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008 {Click on the image to take a closer look} Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Technora …
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Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008
I have plotted the US 3-Month T-bills: Secondary Market rate (green line) vs the Effective Fed Funds rate (orange) for Sept 2008. The major events of the recent financial crisis have been included. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Technorat …
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New Dollar Bill
I cant find the original source (found via my inbox) but it is very smart illustration: Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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Nominal vs Real 3-Month Interest Rate: 1934-2008
I have plotted the 3-Month T-bills: Secondary Market rate (green line) vs the inflation adjusted (i.e. Real) 3-Month T-bills rate (orange) from Jan 1934-Sept 2008. The inflation number I used is CPI-U 3-month % change multiplied by 4. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Data from Federa …
Visualizing Economics
