Housing Archive:

Interactive chart of the housing price to median income ratios across 20 cities. The article has a good description of recent foreclosure auctions. (hat tip to Ritholtz for the find)

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Visual Think Map recently turned me onto Design Density‘s Infographics – they include so much information it is almost hard to read them on a computer screen. truly “super-graphics” in Tufte’s meaning of the phrase.

Here’s a few examples on poverty related to housing, leisure, health care & food.

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For major cities/states, based on employment, housing, and industrial production. Click on the slider to see monthly data back to 1994, click on a state to see cities on the right. (From MSNBC & Moody’s)

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A little dated now, but I didn’t come across the online version of this until today. it’d be nice if they kept it up to date.

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Nothing new, but you have to love the cycle annotation/commentary
(typical humor from Soot and Ashes)

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Nice WSJ article on bubbles. (via Ritholtz)

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if you want to see how the 20 different cities scroll down here:
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(for some stupid reason the WSJ hasn’t updated the label & percentage in the corner, but the chart data looks current)

A very powerful interactive analytical presentation/tool.
From Russell Investments (via Ritholtz)

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Not the best labeled table I’ve seen, and putting the newest data on the left is a bit odd – the numbers themselves are depressing, of course (if you own a house).

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I recently came across FlowingData, a fantastic blog of data analysis and graphic design. Nathan covers a lot of the same territory that I do here, but casts a much broader net and has a lot of discussion about the design methods and tools of the trade. This post about Financial Crisis visualizations is a great example. The links below are to graphics I haven’t posted before (most of which are from a Good Magazine contest).

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Three nice charts in a NYT article (via Ritholtz)

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interactive chart map.

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Most people are familiar with how this is calculated, but if you’re not:

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While we’re at it, here’s the famous long term chart and explanation:

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Animated map of housing prices vs long term trend.

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