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In: Housing Maps US Economy
27 Jul 2009The Herald-Tribune is running a five-day investigative series on the rampant housing fraud in Florida. “Since 2000, more than 50,000 Florida properties flipped under circumstances that fraud investigators identify as suspicious — where homes, vacant land or commercial properties were bought and resold in 90 days or less and increased in value by at least 30 percent.” Wow!
From Catherine over at Visualizing Economics.
A tree map of where the money is flowing. Related article.
(from Kelso’s Corner)
The index of leading indicators, which signals turning points in the economy, is rising at a rate that has accurately indicated the end of every recession since the index began to be compiled in 1959.
Spotted by The Big Picture. Original article.
NYT’s Economix blog noticed payscale.com’s dataset of college grad salaries. Some interesting charts there, and since they make the raw data available, we’ll probably see more.
In: Maps Science Source: WSJ
23 Jul 2009Looks like a nice chart. Too bad it’s squished, 3d, and slightly out of focus. I get the impression a lot of graphics people are either on their summer vacations already, or distracted getting ready for them (I know I am).
A hodge-podge of school related facts. You always walk away from a Good infographic wanting more, but nobody does the easy read overviews as well as they do.
Not bad as an overview, but still doesn’t explain why the supply/demand/price relationships are such a mess in the US.
In: US Economy
23 Jul 2009Wallstats has released it’s latest Death and Taxes Infographic, updated for 2010. Order a poster so you can get depressed by it every day! 🙂
Venn diagrams can be very useful in organizing information and are catching on in the mainstream. (top 2 spotted on DataViz the bottom is from Diesel Sweeties)
In: Innovative News Media
23 Jul 2009An addictive collection of beautiful charts, graphs, maps, and interactive data visualization toys -- on topics from around the world.
Poor Design as Scare Tactic?
In: Commentary Graphic Design (general) Innovative US Economy
23 Jul 2009The Good blog discusses the Republican/Democratic scuffle about the below graphic and health care reform issues. (note: clicking on the below brings up a larger version on another blog).
Here is a better designed graphic (with some chart junk of it’s own, admittedly) from Good showing problems with the existing heath care system: