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College Grade Inflation (1960-2008)

In: Culture Employment History Source: NYT

15 Jul 2011

There’s a new study on the history of collegiate grade inflation. Fascinating stuff – particularly the difference in giving As in private vs public schools. Thanks to David Cramer for passing on the link!

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Dude, Where’s My Job?

In: Employment US Economy

12 Jul 2011

Nice timeline from the WSJ tracing cumulative job losses and gains. The related article does a good job of explaining what’s going on.

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Overworked America

In: Employment

28 Jun 2011

Mother Jones has a series of graphs detailing how bad the American job market is:

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Update: Economic Indicators Dashboard

In: Employment Finance Housing Stock Market US Economy

23 Jun 2011

My favorite economic status tool. Point and/or click on anything and everything to learn something new about the economy, and why you should care.

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Commencement Speeches

In: Culture Employment Source: NYT

21 Jun 2011

The NYT analyzed word usage in 40 2011 commencement speeches. The results are largely what you would expect. However, the differences between private, public, and religious schools are kinda interesting. (related speeches)

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Doctorate Gender Gap

In: Culture Employment

21 Jun 2011

Percentage of 2009 Phd’s awarded to women, by discipline. (via)

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(Not) Spreading the Wealth

In: Employment Source: Washington Post US Economy

20 Jun 2011

Some interesting charts on income distribution, from the Washington Post. (related article)

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What’s Your Major Worth?

In: Employment Source: Washington Post

24 May 2011

Average earnings of different college bachelor’s degrees. Good to see engineering at the top. The most popular major?: Business – ick. The original study also breaks down earnings by gender and ethnic groups. (related Washington Post article)

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Where are the Jobs?

In: Employment Interactive Source: Washington Post US Economy

20 May 2011

A fantastic annotated heatmap from the Washington Post breaking down job creation/loss by sector. On the right is an interactive, slightly more annotated, line chart version of the same data. I prefer the heatmap. (related article)

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Update: Economic Indicators Dashboard

In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive US Economy

25 Apr 2011

Based on these indicators, things are returning to normal.

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Teachers Salaries World Wide

In: Culture Employment

19 Apr 2011

I’m sure the devil is in the details, as usual, but aggregate statistics like this are always good background to any debate. Thanks to KD Kelly for the link!

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Patchwork Nation

In: Culture Employment Housing Interactive Maps US Economy

28 Mar 2011

Patchwork Nation tracks a number of traditional economic and social indicators over time – but they also include some interesting alternative ones:

Cracker Barrel restaurants and Whole Foods Stores:

Gun shops and Casinos:

Bankruptcies 2007 vs 2010:

Change in family income 1980-2010:

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Update: Economic Indicators Dashboard

In: Employment Finance Housing US Economy

23 Mar 2011

One of my favorite economic dashboards. It highlights major macro indicators, what direction they are trending, and what the typical ranges are. It also lets you drill down to explanations of why you should care, and historical values.

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The Wonderful Work of Karl Hartig

In: Culture Employment Finance Graphic Design (general) History Innovative Politics Science US Economy

22 Mar 2011

Karl Hartig was creating beautiful complex data visualizations back when most of us “graphics experts” were still trying to figure out how to change colors in excel. Here is a selection of his work on population, electronics, energy, stocks, immigration, politics, and music. Soak it up!