Making the “Invisible Hand” Visible
Here is a series of maps showing the unemployment rate by state from February to September of this year. This was created using screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map
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[tags]United States, Unemployment, Recession[/tags]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map showing the unemployment rate by state 2 months before the presidential election since 1980. The party in power and the party that eventual won the White House is listed below each map.
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[tags]United States, Unemployment, Election[/tags]
Updated Sept 2008 map with election winner.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Screenshot from Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage Conditions in the United States New York Federal Reserve showing six month change in foreclosures: from March – August 2008.
Red – Conditions have worsened
Green – Conditions have improved
Yellow – No change (within 0.05%)
[tags]United States, Foreclosures[/tags]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Screenshot from a New York Times Interactive Graphic by Kevin Quealy that shows the different gasoline prices across the U.S. earlier this year. The more blue the county color, the lower the price of gas.
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[tags]United States, Gasoline[/tags]
Popularity: 6% [?]
One of several maps showing territories re-sized according different variables. More maps can be found at WorldMapper run by SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan). The map below displays the population in 2000.
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[tags]World, Population[/tags]
Popularity: 3% [?]
“The Census Bureau defines ancestry as a person’s ethnic origin, heritage, descent, or “roots,†which may reflect their place of birth, place of birth of parents or ancestors, and ethnic identities that have evolved within the United States.” from a Census brief on US ancestry. The map below displays the ancestry with the largest population in each county. However, they may not be a majority (>50%) of the population.
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Below is the question that was presented on the long form of the US Census. “In 2000, 58 percent of the population specified only one ancestry, 22 percent provided two ancestries, and 1 percent reported an unclassifiable ancestry such as “mixture†or “adopted.†Another 19 percent did not report any ancestry at all.”
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[tags]United States, Population[/tags]
Popularity: 8% [?]
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