Interactive Archive:
The Road to 7 Billion
27 Oct 2011The Financial Times has pulled together some interactive visualizations of world demographics as we approach 7 billion people. I would have liked to see the population pyramids for more countries. The fertility/education graph is a bit shocking.
Note: Some FT features require a subscription.
Shoe Throwing Index
24 Oct 2011This is a strange little tool: an interactive index to middle east unrest.
Move the sliders to ascribe different weightings to the various indicators that may influence instability (since the values shown are rounded, they may not always add up to exactly 100). Lock individual sliders by clicking the checkboxes. Roll over the chart to see indicators for each country.
Life Expectancy (1960-2009)
15 Oct 2011Highlight by region, roll over for individual country info. The interface is a little janky – you can join the discussion over at FlowingData if you have any suggestions.
Washington DC Housing Prices
11 Oct 2011A nicely annotated analysis of changing house prices in the DC region. The main graphic shows how much you would need to earn to buy a “typical single family home”. There is also an interactive version which lets you compare information for different time periods and look at condo vs house sales. (related article)
US State Budget Gaps
In: Finance Interactive Internet/tech Politics Source: FT US Economy
27 Sep 2011What is shocking to me is that there are 12 states with no shortfall.
Note: Some Financial Times features require a subscription.
Weather and Conception
26 Sep 2011Statistics indicate that more people are born in the fall (in the USA anyway), with the quick explanation being that we have more sex during the winter holidays (9 months earlier). GE takes a cut at this notion by comparing average temperatures and deviations from the national average birthrate. Statistically, however, using annual data adds enough noise in my mind to make drawing conclusions kind of tough. Anyone want to dig up the monthly data (even for one state) and do a lagged scatter plot? Hmmmm… how would you seasonally adjust this data?
(one minor complaint: the 3d scale is interesting for comparing states, but you can’t tell what the values are for any of them because of the angle)
Tax Break Breakdown
In: Innovative Interactive Politics Source: Washington Post US Economy
19 Sep 2011To be cliché: the truth may surprise you. This is a great look at the “loopholes” in our tax system, point by point. You can filter by kind of break, compare individual vs corporate, find out when they were first implemented, and see how they all add up. However, I really wish the lines in the main bar graph had matched width with the amount of the break (with the y-axis being billions of $) – at first glance that’s what I thought was going on. I’m also not sure how I feel about things like “employer contributions to health care” being considered a break. (related article)
Newspapers (1690-2011)
16 Sep 2011Much like the post office timeline movie I posted last month, below we have the history of newspaper expansion across the USA. Interestingly, this movie is actually an extraction from a very well done interactive visualization of the Library of Congress’s newspaper database. You can even drill down to individual towns and see information about each newspaper. (via)
Original interactive version:
Capital Inflows
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: WSJ
15 Sep 2011Cheap money and slow growth in the advanced countries has led to large capital flows to emerging market countries, as this interactive tool from the WSJ shows. If you mouse over each country you can view countries’ policy responses. I really like these map/graph combo designs – the two go very well together.
How Healthy is Your Bank?
13 Sep 2011From MSNBC and the American University: Identify your bank (or credit union) by name or location, then see how many non-performing loans and other troubled assets it has:
of related interest is this 2010 chart that Barry Ritholtz recently noted:
The Cost of 9/11
11 Sep 2011NYT presents a graphical breakdown of some cost estimates for 9/11:
You can drill down into the different categories:
Banks: Then and Now
10 Sep 2011Interactive comparison of bank market capitalization, income, and employees. The data are interesting, but the color selection could use more contrast, and the representation of negative values for net income is just bizarre.
Note: some FT features require a subscription.
Fed Crisis Lending to Wall Street
23 Aug 2011Bloomberg compiled some stunning new data on Fed loans to Wall Street banks during the crisis based across multiple programs (Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, Commercial Paper Funding Facility, discount window, PDCF, TAF, Term Securities Lending Facility and single-tranche open market operations). (related article; via The Big Picture)
I wish I could borrow from the Fed at <2% using junk bonds as collateral.
You get the below charts by selecting multiple banks to compare them:
US Energy Production
In: Interactive Science
16 Aug 2011“More than half of the energy produced in the U.S. isn’t put to use.” A lovely interactive sankey diagram of energy production and waste. As you rollover the diagram it highlights different flows. (via)
Post Offices 1700-1900
In: History Interactive Maps
10 Aug 2011Derek Watkins created this beautiful animated map proxying the expansion of “civilization” across the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. I particularly like the running timeline at the bottom.
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