Job Voyager
18 Sep 2009Along 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.
Global Debt
In: Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics Source: Economist
18 Sep 2009From the Economist, an interactive map and clock of global debt (1999-2011). Spotted over at Infectious Greed.
One Crisis Later
18 Sep 2009So 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.
Metal Tree
In: Culture Humor Innovative
17 Sep 2009I need to make one of these for house music. Spotted at DataViz.
Food Stamps
In: Culture Food US Economy
16 Sep 2009At 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.
UK Government Spending
16 Sep 2009Click below for the PDF. There’s also an audio annotated interactive version. From the Guardian.
Lehman Diaspora
16 Sep 2009Move the timeline slider and watch former Lehman employees scatter to their new jobs. Click on blocks to see individual stories.
Crisis Timeline
16 Sep 2009Call up monthly slivers of data and related news for 6 financial market indicators (dow, treasury yields, libor, commercial yields, CDS spreads, mortgage backed spreads).
Hot Air Inventory
In: Humor Interactive Politics
15 Sep 2009Compare any two members of the 110th (2007-08) US congress, by amount of words spoken, votes, and even a nice little word cloud.
Suburbified New York
In: Culture Maps News Media
15 Sep 2009“Based on the New York Times ‘Living In‘ columns from the past ten years, this map uses color-coding to represent publication dates and provides a list of common phrases that describe the locations.” The phrases are pretty entertaining.
NYT News Classifier
15 Sep 2009Uses “elastic lists” to find articles. Much better than the normal search
Economic Recovery Dashboard (9/15/09 update)
In: Employment Finance Innovative Interactive Reference Updated regularly US Economy
15 Sep 2009Here is this month’s update of one of my favorite presentations of economic indicators, from Russell Investments. Includes trending, useful popups, drill down links to historical data, and good descriptions of each indicator. It’s really everything an economic dashboard should look like. (ok, maybe they could animate it over time.)
Bank Robberies
In: Culture Innovative
15 Sep 2009An interesting presentation of some bank robbery stats. Of course, the eye isn’t really that good at comparing arc lengths – but if you’re only trying to make broad statistical points these types of charts aren’t too bad.
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Terrorism Worry Tree
In: Commentary Culture Politics
15 Sep 2009Why have there been no more 9/11’s? Click on each of the theories to bring up the relevant essay, and make up your own mind.