Archive for September, 2009

From the NYT, a presentation of all of the bailout programs. Updated through September 11.

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I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.

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More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:

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A 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.

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Brookings 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.

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Two employment graphics from the WSJ:

Financial sector job losses (more spread out than I would have suspected). Related article.

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State-by-State, with a timeline slider Dec 07 through August.

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Interactive 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.

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Related article. Once again, spotted over at Infectious Greed (I really should go there more often).

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Click 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.

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Along 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.

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From the Economist, an interactive map and clock of global debt (1999-2011). Spotted over at Infectious Greed.

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So 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.

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I need to make one of these for house music. Spotted at DataViz.

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At 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.

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Click below for the PDF. There’s also an audio annotated interactive version. From the Guardian.

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