Archive for September, 2009
Bailout Update
22 Sep 2009From the NYT, a presentation of all of the bailout programs. Updated through September 11.
Bailout Matrices
21 Sep 2009I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.
More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:
Art vs Graphic Design
21 Sep 2009A great article over at webdesigndepot about the difference between art and design. I don’t agree with all the distinctions he makes, but it’s an interesting read.
Brookings Metro Monitor (Sept 09 report)
21 Sep 2009Brookings is tracking the economic health of 100 USA metro areas using a variety of indicators. Below are the maps for overall performance and REOs (there are more on the site). You can look up summary reports for individual cities. Also interesting are the rankings, which appear in the appendix of the full report.
FDI Continues to Fall
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Source: Economist
21 Sep 2009
Not News to Anyone…
21 Sep 2009Two employment graphics from the WSJ:
Financial sector job losses (more spread out than I would have suspected). Related article.
State-by-State, with a timeline slider Dec 07 through August.
G20 Pittsburgh
21 Sep 2009Interactive tool for grasping what the G20 has said, and done, over the last three summits.
In depth G20 coverage from the FT is available here.
Related article. Once again, spotted over at Infectious Greed (I really should go there more often).
Company Political Contributions
18 Sep 2009Click on a logo to sort all companies in that sector by party contributions, then click again for pop-up details. I love this both because I like the object oriented use of the logos, and the data results are very interesting to browse this way.
Job Voyager
18 Sep 2009Along the lines of the baby name voyager and meme map, here you can type in an occupation and compare employment from 1850-2000. (try “economist”) Spotted over at Infectious Greed.
Global Debt
In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: Economist
18 Sep 2009From the Economist, an interactive map and clock of global debt (1999-2011). Spotted over at Infectious Greed.
One Crisis Later
18 Sep 2009So many data releases focus (correctly) on percentage changes m-to-m or y-to-y; but once in a while it’s useful to look at the actual numbers. Below is the S&P, Employment, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies.
Metal Tree
In: Culture Humor Innovative
17 Sep 2009I need to make one of these for house music. Spotted at DataViz.
Food Stamps
In: Culture Food US Economy
16 Sep 2009At first I liked this, thinking that the icons identified different food assistance programs – but it’s just a one series bar chart (number of food stamp recipients). Spotted at FlowingData.
UK Government Spending
16 Sep 2009Click below for the PDF. There’s also an audio annotated interactive version. From the Guardian.
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