Archive for the 'Financial markets' Category

Visual Storytelling: Credit Crisis

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

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.

Wall Street Journal_CrisisTimeline

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.

Google Finance DJIA

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

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US stockmarket returns since 1825 [Economist]

Published on June 30, 2009 in Financial markets, Histogram and United States. 1 Comment

From the Economist

The total return of the S&P 500 index fell by nearly 40% last year, the second-worst performance by America’s stockmarket since 1825…


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What is a Hedge Fund?

Published on April 1, 2009 in Financial markets and Video. 2 Comments

In case you were wondering about what all those hedge fund managers were doing while earning those incredibly large incomes check this out:


A look inside hedge funds from Marketplace on Vimeo.

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Published on March 5, 2009 in Financial markets, United States and Video. 2 Comments

The Crisis of Credit Visualized is a video from Interaction & Media Designer Jonathan Jarvis found via Cool Infographics.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Five indicators for tracking the Credit Crisis (NYTimes)

Published on January 31, 2009 in Financial markets, Line Graph and United States. Closed

From New York Times Economix blog. Five indicators tracking the change in the supply/demand for Credit: High-Yield Bonds, 30-day Commercial Paper, 3-month LIBOR, 3-month t-bills, and TED Spread

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Unemployment magnifying glass

[tags]United States, Credit Crisis[/tags]

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Stock Market & World GDP Statistical Data Sculptures

Published on January 11, 2009 in Financial markets, GDP, Sculpture and World. Closed

The piece consists of two layers: the lower half is a mapping of the
world’s GDP and the top half is a mapping of the derivatives volume,
alloted to the coordinates of the countries on a map.

Sculpture found via infomation aesthetics

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