Visualizing Economics
Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible
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Should the government own banks? [NYTimes]
While not exactly economic data, I did like the visualization of 2 polls asking if the government should own banks. From the NY Times article Banks of America Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Should the government own banks? [NYTimees]
While not economic data, I did like the visualization of 2 polls asking if the government should own banks. From the NY Times article Banks of America Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Health Care Spending 1965-2008 [Nytimes]
From the NY Times article (the Other category includes Dept of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Childrens health care programs) Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Housing Starts Jan 1968 - Jan 2009 [Calculated Risk]
Housing starts over the last 40 years. Take a look at the rest at February Economic Summary in Graphs from Calculated Risk found via Marginal Revolution {Click on the image to take a closer look} Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The Crisis of Credit Visualized is a video from Interaction & Media Designer Jonathan Jarvis found via Cool Infographics. Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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US Trade Surplus and Deficit [Brightpoint]
Interactive trade surplus graphic showing the countries that have a surplus of cash flows (i.e. money flowing in to the US) in blue-green at the top and a deficit of cash flows at the bottom in red from 1998-2008. By Tom Gonzalez at Brightpoint found via infosthetics {Click on the image to take a c …
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Watching the Growth of Walmart [Flowing Data]
Here is a delightful interactive graphic created by Nathan Yau @ FlowingData Make sure to click on the map to watch as Walmarts spread across the US Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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United States Poverty Rates From 1980 to 2007 [FlowingData]
Created by Nathan Yau @ FlowingData Click on map to view the Interactive Flash version Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Five indicators for Debt in the U.S. (Numbrary)
From Numbrary. This site provides simple graphs for many different economic data sets and groups them by subject. The example below should the data for US Debt. Also allows users to upload data. {Click on the image to take a closer look} Technorati Tags: United States, DebtDownload FREE ePost …
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Five indicators for tracking the Credit Crisis (NYTimes)
From New York Times Economix blog. Five indicators tracking the change in the supply/demand for Credit: High-Yield Bonds, 30-day Commercial Paper, 3-month LIBOR, 3-month t-bills, and TED Spread {Click on the image to take a closer look} Technorati Tags: United States, Credit CrisisDownload FR …
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Income of the Superrich in 2005
Recently the CBO published a supplement to their Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005 report to include a breakdown of top 1% into smaller percentiles. I took the data for income and created this visualization. It is comparing the minimum income for each percentile to the average inc …
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Fortune magazine Information graphics spreads
While not quite on topic, these graphics from the 1940s are both rich in detail and beautiful. Via History of Visual Communication Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Change in net worth of US millionaries [Economist]
From the Economist US millionaires have lost a third of their net worth since the financial crisis began (Sept 2008- Dec 2008). Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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Stock Market & World GDP Statistical Data Sculptures
The piece consists of two layers: the lower half is a mapping of the worlds GDP and the top half is a mapping of the derivatives volume, alloted to the coordinates of the countries on a map. Sculpture found via infomation aesthetics Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Sha …
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Collection of Data Visualization Patterns
Information Design Patterns found via Well-formed data Download FREE ePoster: Average Income in the United States Share and Enjoy:
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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 …
Visualizing Economics
