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31 May 2009

A great animated chart showing the likelihood of dying at different ages over the years. I would think demographic data like this would be ripe for interesting visualizations. Nice job understandinguncertainty.org!

Two earlier posts/versions (one & two) don’t go back as far, but include the detailed explanation and some additional breakdown by risk factors.

ps – this data is for the UK.
pps – the same site conducts a similar analysis of Charles Minard’s famous infographic of Napolean’s 1812 campaign (odds of dying as the campaign goes on), as well as a cool animated bubble heat map of the size and location of the army:

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US Auto Market Share 1980-2008

In: Bailout Interactive Source: FT US Economy

31 May 2009

roll-overs show the ten-year data trends. What surprised me was how GM has taken the bulk of the loss, with Chrysler actually holding pretty steady.

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SubsidyScope Bailout Visualizations

In: Bailout Finance Interactive Maps US Economy

29 May 2009

Created by the Pew Charitable Trusts, SubsidyScope.com has some interesting visualizations, and looks to be a great resource for tracking these issues going forward. The blog on the front page is great as well.

Tarp disbursements by recipient or date, and the transaction table at the bottom keeps up with your mouse clicks:

Estimates of the subsidy rates (also a good read on how TARP works):

Value of TARP government warrants:

TARP Recipient Map:

Finally, Bank Failures and the FDIC Fund Balance:

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The FT 500

In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT Stock Market US Economy

29 May 2009

Interactive table of top 500 companies in the world (and for US/EU/UK/Japan) by market cap. You can sort any column, filter by sector, and drill down each company to see stats and historical rankings.

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Case-Shiller (mar 09 data)

In: Housing Interactive Source: NYT US Economy

27 May 2009

The NYT has updated one of my favorite interactive presentations of Case-Shiller’s 20 city housing index. It shows how each cities’ performance versus the national index (the light grey bars in the background).

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Pension Losses

In: Employment Global Economy Interactive Source: FT

27 May 2009

Buried in a lot of videos and audio analysis on this FT tool are some very interesting charts showing how much damage has been done to pension systems around the world (and not just in the past year).

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US Unemployment Map

In: Employment Interactive Maps Source: WSJ US Economy

27 May 2009

Data from Dec 07- Apr 09. There isn’t too much interesting here, unless you want to compare states using the chart on the right.

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Map of Bank Failures Jan-08 to June 09

In: Bailout Finance Interactive Maps Source: WSJ US Economy

26 May 2009

The interesting part are the bubble roll-overs: they show who tookover each bank’s assets, and how much each closure cost the FDIC.

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Commitment to Development Index Map (2008)

In: Global Economy Interactive Maps

26 May 2009

From the Center for Global Development, the Commitment to Development Index (CDI) rates 22 rich countries on how much they help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security. Each rich country gets scores in seven policy areas, which are averaged for an overall score.

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IMF Datamapper Updated with 2009-14 Projections

In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Reference

26 May 2009

Updated with data from the latest World Economic Outlook report. Allows drill down, country and aggregate comparisons (via the chart at the bottom), and animation of the last 29 years (to watch the world change). You can also view other datasets (BOP, etc).