From Numbrary. This site provides simple graphs for many different economic data sets and groups them by subject. The example below should the data for US Debt. Also allows users to upload data.
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[tags]United States, Debt[/tags]
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Great site! I’ve never studied economics, and I was wondering where people get the raw data used to create such graphs? After googling for a bit, I came across bea.gov and census.gov which had quite a bit, but finding exactly what you want isn’t very easy.
Especially for older data, pre-WW2. Specifically, after reading the post where you commented on this story http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/extreme_inequality I thought it would be neat to graph other items over it. GDP, national debt, personal debt, etc.. but finding numbers as far back as 1917 is tricky. At least for a person who hasn’t ever tried to look it up before.
Any advice on good raw data sources?
Bad graphs. Why? Y-axis multipliers not stated for dollar figures. How can the creators have missed this?