Income inequality, as seen from outer space. More trees = wealthier neighborhood.
Featured here: Chicago, Boston, Oakland
Mapping How NYC Bike-Share Meshes With Jobs and Transit
Hungry for more bike-share maps? Yeah, us too. Thanks to Steven Romalewski, the director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mapping Service, we’ve got our fix.
In a post on his Spatiality blog, Romalewski uses GIS to analyze the 413 bike-share stations posted on DOT’s website so far. One map, shown above, shows each station with the size of the station displayed graphically. At a glance, you can see the number of docks per station decrease as you move away from employment centers and subway lines, or into Brooklyn and Queens. For an interactive version, click here.
Student Debt at Colleges and Universities Across the Nation
The average amount of debt that students have at graduation has increased at a vast majority of colleges and universities in the United States, according to data compiled by an advocacy group, the Institute for College Access and Success. The data on student debt is self-reported by the schools, and many institutions don’t participate. Other figures, like graduation rates, come from the Education Department.
Not since 1956, when a North Carolina truck driver named Malcom McLean created a standard-size container for cargo, has global shipping seen such radical change. Carriers are bigger than ever, ports are becoming automated, and routes are shifting. The volume of goods that move between ports in Asia now accounts for 13% of all seaborne trade, up nearly a third from a decade ago.
The unending march of technology and our adoption of it, in one great graphic.
What I find most interesting are the multiple dips in car ownership (around the Depression and WWI, and a tiny blip in the go-go 50’s) and the fact that the telephone trended downward in the early 30’s before resuming dominance. Can anyone explain that last one?
Would You Be Better Off in a Different City?
Most of us tend to make one of the biggest decisions of our lives – where to live – on vague notions of which city has the most jobs or the best coffee shops or Chinese restaurants. But the cost of living and quality of life varies widely across the country, particularly depending on what you do and which expenses you carry, and chances are you may not be living where economic data suggests you’d be the most comfortable.
Now an app just unveiled this week can calculate all of this for you (we are not suggesting you peruse the Bureau of Labor Statistics on your own). Upwardly Mobile, a new tool from Sunlight Foundation, can take your career information and your spending priorities and figure out where it makes the most sense to be a library archivist with children in daycare and cars to gas up.
UK lagging in renewables as Finland, Estonia and Denmark excel
Using information from a European Commission report, Blue & Green Tomorrow has created an infographic that shows the renewable energy commitments of 24 European countries, and for the UK, it doesn’t read all that well.
As of 2010, the UK had the smallest percentage of people employed in the renewable energy sector, in proportion with its total workforce, with only 0.073% of people working in the industry.
Whilst this figure is expected to have risen since 2010 – partially because of increased governmental awareness and commitment to renewables through schemes such as the feed-in tariff – the UK, a leader in so many other ways, can do better.
When it comes to turnover from renewable energy, the UK is barely any better—22nd out of 24 countries and contributing only 0.439% of GDP, with only the Netherlands and Ireland below it.
With so much space, so few options — Detroit’s vast vacant lots are a burden
If vacant lots were painted red, an aerial view of Detroit would look like a bad case of the measles. There is so much empty land today within Detroit’s 139 square miles — land slowly returning to nature with no buildings — the city of Paris could fit inside. If all that land were gathered into football fields, Detroit could host 25,000 simultaneous games.
Here is a look at how Greater Los Angeles Area residents, business owners, and students view their region’s economy.
Do you have an opinion about what really matters for California’s economic future? Vote now!
Credit rating downgrade weighs heavily on European economies
The fixation on Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has inspired us to produce a series of infographics that aim to put eurozone debt into a wider, global context. Each infographic in our series maps out debt size relative to GDP – colored by credit rating and weighted with 10-year yield rates – for each major economy within a region.
Apple Is Now Bigger Than The Entire US Retail Sector
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Prices Are People: A Short History of Working and Spending Money
Over the next month, we’re putting together a special report, the Money Report, about how and why we spend what we do. Economics is so often the economist-eye view of the world. We’re out to recreate the consumer-eye view of the world. We’re interested in what things cost, why they cost that much, and why they’re getting more expensive and less expensive. If you’ve got awesome and surprising stories about prices, costs and the flow of money, leave us a tip in the comment section.
To kick things off, we’d like to very briefly introduce one of the themes of the Money Report: Prices are people. […]
Across the 20th century, the labor force has shifted from farmers and foresters to manufacturers and then to professional and service workers. In 1900, we spent much of our manpower growing food and feeding ourselves. By 1950, the major economic industries were manufacturing and construction. But today’s labor economy revolves around services, not products.
Read more. [Image: Kiss Me, I’m Polish]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0w2q8pK1r1qcokc4o1_1280.png)
Prices Are People: A Short History of Working and Spending Money
Over the next month, we’re putting together a special report, the Money Report, about how and why we spend what we do. Economics is so often the economist-eye view of the world. We’re out to recreate the consumer-eye view of the world. We’re interested in what things cost, why they cost that much, and why they’re getting more expensive and less expensive. If you’ve got awesome and surprising stories about prices, costs and the flow of money, leave us a tip in the comment section.
To kick things off, we’d like to very briefly introduce one of the themes of the Money Report: Prices are people. […]
Across the 20th century, the labor force has shifted from farmers and foresters to manufacturers and then to professional and service workers. In 1900, we spent much of our manpower growing food and feeding ourselves. By 1950, the major economic industries were manufacturing and construction. But today’s labor economy revolves around services, not products.
Read more. [Image: Kiss Me, I’m Polish]
Avoid the Center (Theo Deutinger & Theresia Kohlmayr, 2008) - physical size vs. prosperity
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