From the yearly archives:
My latest project is a collaboration with Timothy Noah on a slide show for his article, The United States of Inequality. You can take a look at the slide show: The Great Divergence in Pictures on Slate.com.
If are want even more income graphics, make sure to take a look at some of my older blog posts:
Average Income in the United States 1913-2006
Income Distribution
Comparing Tax Rates by Income
Growth of Income Inequality
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From Planet Money’s blog
I have been enjoying a series of podcasts by Plant Money’s team in which they bought toxic asset which has more than 2,000 mortgages. They paid $1,000 for a piece that used to be worth around $75,000.
Their interactive graphic shows how this asset was created with mortgages across the country, how many payments they have received from it, and how it has been losing value.
In the beginning Dec 2006, “Toxie” was a little sick
But by July 2010, “Toxie” was a almost dead…
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Posters and book created by Jeremy Christopher found via Datavisualization.ch
The poster is one of several which explain the history, value, and composition of the FTSE 100. It is rare that I see basic financial data visualized with this much attention to the aesthetics of the design.
The book pages layer to create the center color circles which represent the sectors weightings which I though was clever.
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Found via FastCoDesign
Each circle represents a billionaire but when appropriate the company that they associated with is labeled. And of course United States leads the way with number of billionaires. I liked seeing the data presented on a map; having a geographic distribution shows off the number of non-US billionaires. It would have been nice to see their net worth included in the infographic.
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Screenshots from an interactive animation on Slate.com
The affect of the recession is dramatically illustrated in this example. In the first screenshot we see the job growth in 2006
In the second screen shot we see the job loss Oct 2008-Oct 2009
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In June, I posted a survey on my blog and received 145 responses. (Thanks to every one who took the time to fill it out!) In the 4.5 years I have been running this blog, I have been looking at my site stats and the email/comments I received but I thought it was time I try a survey to learn more about my visitors are looking for.
The results are displayed in the graphic below. I tried to group the opened ended responses into categories so I could summarized them.
One change I will be making based on this survey, creating some original graphics focusing on financial markets which should make 70% of you happy. Also I am trying to optimize my process so I can make more graphics in less time (which I hope to include more non-US data). In addition, I have been thinking I should adding more explanations on the graphs and the process to make them, so that feedback confirms my suspicions. Look for these changes and more over the next few months.
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Visualizing Economics was created by Catherine Mulbrandon. Here you can view graphs and charts about the United States and world economies. I am available for freelance projects.
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