Visualizing Economics
Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible
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Unemployment: Great Depression vs Great Recession
I created this infographic to compare the unemployment rate over the last 18 months to the Great Depression.
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What inspired me this week 2009-07-24
Seth Godin Is Getting It… http://bit.ly/L6WnZ # [Cartogrammar] Simple shapefile drawing in ActionScript 3 http://bit.ly/SDQoZ # Use iGoogle as a Data Dashboard http://bit.ly/Gvzu2 # WAINOVA: The World Atlas of Innovation http://bit.ly/231qlH # Doing graphics the George Orwell way http://bit.ly/Q0veW …
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Making Sense out of Numbers
I was able to attend the Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge held at the Census Bureau in DC last week. It was an interesting mix of officials from government statistical offices, central banks with academics and designer/data geeks. Some of the highlights: Amanda Cox …
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What inspired me this week 2009-07-17
US States’ Fiscal Problem http://bit.ly/QLazd # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Data Scienist > Data Geek > Designer
Reading Nathan Yaus recent post about the Rise of the Data Scientist inspired me to take a look Ben Frys dissertation on Computational Information Design in which he describes the process for understanding data as follows: acquire – the matter of obtaining the data, whether from a file on a disk o …
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What inspired me this week 2009-07-10
Detailed Timelines of the Financial Crisis http://bit.ly/Clse4 # Where Are We From? http://bit.ly/UTnpu # Michael Jackson Billboard Rankings: the Man, the Legend http://bit.ly/BnTni # "A paved United States in our day" http://bit.ly/12eIZQ # Visualizing correlations circularly http://bit.l …
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Who caused the Deficit?
Some more data visualization goodies Two methods for presenting the source for the 1.2 billion dollar US federal deficit: From the New York Times From ThinkProgress
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Designing for government services
Part of my interest in visualizing economic data comes from my belief that interaction and information design has a lot to offer the public sector in providing a better access to the data the government collects about itself and the society at large. But there are people currently looking at designs …
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US stockmarket returns since 1825 [Economist]
From the Economist The total return of the S&P 500 index fell by nearly 40% last year, the second-worst performance by Americas stockmarket since 1825
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Unemployment: Housing Bubble vs Manufacturing (Jan 2009)
Screenshots taken from NYTimes Interactive graphic. While not the most recent unemployment data, I liked these maps because you see the the location of the house bubble and the manufacturing in the U.S. and the severity of the unemployment in many of those areas. Housing Bubble Unemployment rate in …
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What I was inspired by 2009-06-26
Visualisation Magazine vol1 # SND Gallery # Dynamic Data Visualisation http://bit.ly/thln0 # Dream job http://bit.ly/eP71P # John Snow’s cluster map about the cholera deaths in London # US CIO Kundra Calls for Web 2.0 Co-Creation of Knowledge With Citizens http://www.readwriteweb. Read more at http: …
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Maintenance
If you have noticed some issues with this site just know that I have updated my blog to Wordpress 2.8 this week and some of the plugins (i.e. lightbox) are not working. Also I am trying to clean up my categories. Hopefully this will make the site run a little better once I finish. Thanks for your pa …
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Number of US Millionaires fell 27% in 2008
Red line = net worth of at least $1 million (not including primary residences) Gray line = number of households with investible assets of at least $1 million via The Wealth Report Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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What I was inspired by 2009-06-12
389 – America’s Mean Streak http://bit.ly/KBGu2 # Unemployment And Education-Level http://bit.ly/10wEX2 # The changing face of every day design http://bit.ly/YAhGC # Straight Facts and InfoPorn http://bit.ly/eDDuS # Tie Your Shoes… http://bit.ly/TZ9u1 # Graphic Journalism at Reuters # David Simon (H …
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Stock Prices in Sculpture: 2008
3D visualization of S & P 500, Dow Jones Industrial and NASDAQ prices from January to November 2008 from anfischer. via Economix Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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Oil Prices 1999-2008
An unusual visualization of oil prices: Found via SimpleComplexity on Flickr from Whatype Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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What I was reading 2009-06-05
CEO Compensation 1970-2000 http://bit.ly/DCfR7 # The Problems Haven’t Gone Away http://bit.ly/3yxMEO # Subsidyscope: Tracking TARP and US Federal Subsidies in the Economy http://feeds.infosthetics.c Read more at http://bit.ly/zGUDx # New ideas in terrain mapping for cyclists http://bit.ly/18uMe1 # T …
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Currency: The Sinking Dollar 2002-2008
Transparency: Currency: The Sinking Dollar, originally uploaded by GOOD Magazine. Found via GOOD Magazine’s Infographics Now Archived on Flickr | FlowingData Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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Have a data visualization question…
Jorge Camoes over at Charts is requesting data visualization questions. Check it out here: Will you Help Me Write a Data Visualization E-Book (and Win a Free Copy)? Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States
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Bailout plan
From Associated Press. Displaying the $700 billion bailout plan from the American government by comparing the amount of money asked for to the size of the company. Circle size = % of bailout compared to market value of the company. Found via Datavisualization.ch Download FREE ePoster: Average In …
Visualizing Economics
