http://www.visualizingeconomics.com Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Part of my interest in visualizing economic data comes from my belief that interaction and information design has a lot to offer the public sector in providing a better access to the data the government collects about itself and the society at large. But there are people currently looking at ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/07/03/415/ 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... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/30/us-stockmarket-returns-since-1825-economist/ Screenshots taken from NYTimes Interactive graphic. While not the most recent unemployment data, I liked these maps because you see the the location of the house bubble and the manufacturing in the U.S. and the severity of the unemployment in many of those areas. Housing Bubble [caption id="attachment_393" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Unemployment rate ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/28/unemployment-housing-bubble-vs-manufacturing-jan-2009/ Visualisation Magazine vol1 http://issuu.com/visualthinkmap/docs/visualisationmagazinevol1 # SND Gallery http://www.newsdesigner.com/gallery/home.php # Dynamic Data Visualisation http://bit.ly/thln0 # Dream job http://bit.ly/eP71P # John Snow’s cluster map about the cholera deaths in London... http://blog.courtneybolton.com/post/119098282 # US CIO Kundra Calls for Web 2.0 Co-Creation of Knowledge With Citizens http://www.readwriteweb.... Read more at http://bit.ly/2CZfWN # 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization http://bit.ly/4Klby # ColorBrewer2.org ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/26/what-i-was-inspired-by-2009-06-26/ If you have noticed some issues with this site just know that I have updated my blog to Wordpress 2.8 this week and some of the plugins (i.e. lightbox) are not working. Also I am trying to clean up my categories. Hopefully this will make the site run a little ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/25/maintenance/ Red line = net worth of at least $1 million (not including primary residences) Gray line = number of households with investible assets of at least $1 million via The Wealth Report http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/20/number-of-us-millionaires-fell-27-in-2008/ 389 – America’s Mean Streak http://bit.ly/KBGu2 # Unemployment And Education-Level http://bit.ly/10wEX2 # The changing face of every day design http://bit.ly/YAhGC # Straight Facts and InfoPorn http://bit.ly/eDDuS # Tie Your Shoes… http://bit.ly/TZ9u1 # Graphic Journalism at Reuters http://about.reuters.com/media/graphics/assets/graphicsinsight.htm # David Simon (HBO's "The Wire") about what went wrong with Journalism http://bit.ly/yjTrZ # CIA World Factbook Relation Browser (moritz.stefaner) ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/12/what-i-was-inspired-by-2009-06-12/ 3D visualization of S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial and NASDAQ prices from January to November 2008 from anfischer. via Economix http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/09/stock-prices-in-sculpture-2008/ An unusual visualization of oil prices: Found via SimpleComplexity on Flickr from Whatype http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/07/oil-prices-1999-2008/ CEO Compensation 1970-2000 http://bit.ly/DCfR7 # The Problems Haven’t Gone Away http://bit.ly/3yxMEO # Subsidyscope: Tracking TARP and US Federal Subsidies in the Economy http://feeds.infosthetics.c... Read more at http://bit.ly/zGUDx # New ideas in terrain mapping for cyclists http://bit.ly/18uMe1 # The trouble with two lines http://bit.ly/BuGXr # Espresso book machine + printer = book @ .07 cents a ... http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2009/06/05/what-i-was-reading-2009-06-05/