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Tax rates and Government Spending

Published on February 6, 2010 in Area Graph, Federal Budget, Interactive Graphic, Tax collection and United States. 1 Comment

Day 6 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From USA Today

There is a lot going on in this interactive graphic:

The main graph is plotting a single salary (in gray) but it is shown adjusted for inflation from 1940 to 2008.
The colored areas represent the amount of tax appropriated each year to different parts of the federal budget.
The smaller graph shows the percent of income paid in federal taxes from 1940 to 2008

I have taken screenshots for three different incomes for comparison: $10,000 $100,000 and $1,000,000. You will notice that the percentage of the tax collected for Social Security is greater for the $10,000 income than for the two higher incomes. This is because the % of taxes collected from the Social Security tax is highest on the $10,000 income.

$10,000

$100,000

$1,000,000

Popularity: 1% [?]

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Visual Storytelling: Credit Crisis

Published on September 27, 2009 in Area Graph, Financial markets, Interactive Graphic and United States. Closed Tags: Credit Crisis.

An interactive graphic from the Wall Street Journal, which takes the data for 6 key financial indicators and stacks them while rollover text annotates the main events of the crisis. Created by Andrew Garcia Phillips, Stephen Grocer and Kate Milani.

I think the visual display of the data is very effective however the rollover text annotations are not effective since you can’t use them to follow the underlining story in the data visualization.

While I appreciate Google Finance integrating the news story with the graphic which allows you to use the data visualization find related news stories you lose the different data series and there still is no coherent story for the graphic.

Still, I have found the most effective storytelling using data visualizations uses a person to narrate the story.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Currency: The Sinking Dollar 2002-2008

Published on June 4, 2009 in Area Graph, Currency, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Closed

Transparency: Currency: The Sinking Dollar, originally uploaded by GOOD Magazine.

Found via GOOD Magazine’s Infographics Now Archived on Flickr | FlowingData

Popularity: 2% [?]

Financial Sector Wages 1909-2006 [NYTimes]

Published on March 25, 2009 in Area Graph, Income - Occupation, NBER, United States and Wages. Closed

Found via NYTimes.com. Data is from Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006. The graph shows the extra wages paid to people in the financial sector compared to other industries.

Financial Sector Wages Relative to Other Industries