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
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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.
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From Associated Press. Displaying the $700 billion bailout plan from the American government by comparing the amount of money asked for to the size of the company.
Circle size = % of bailout compared to market value of the company.
Found via Datavisualization.ch
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Interactive graphics from The Pay at the Top – The New York Times
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Following up my last post Job Growth: Last 4 years vs Next 4 years, I took a couple of screenshots of USATODAY.com interactive graphic comparing the best and worst sectors:
{Click on the image to take a closer look}
The Best: Government
The Worst: Financial activities
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Simple way to keep track job growth forecasts. USATODAY.com has created a interactive graphic updated each month with revised data from Moody’s Economy.com. Found via Interactive Narratives
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