Mapping Idaho Unemployment
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Avoid the Center (Theo Deutinger & Theresia Kohlmayr, 2008) - physical size vs. prosperity
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Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was surprisingly bullish on reviving manufacturing, prompting one very clever person on Twitter to say something along the lines of: “Democrats want the economy of the 1950s, while Republicans just want to live there.”
It got me thinking: What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read more.
[Image: Brian McGill and Peter Bell/National Journal]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfd35PcEC1qcokc4o1_1280.png)
Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was surprisingly bullish on reviving manufacturing, prompting one very clever person on Twitter to say something along the lines of: “Democrats want the economy of the 1950s, while Republicans just want to live there.”
It got me thinking: What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read more.
[Image: Brian McGill and Peter Bell/National Journal]
Where people are looking for homes
In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years later, there were 27 million. Trulia’s most recent visualization shows this growth (bottom bar graph) and where people are searching for homes (map). Press play and watch it go. It’s pretty much population density, but for me, the method is more interesting than the material in this case.
1975 Employment in the United States
Student loan debt has ballooned since the 1990s.
Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question
![xkcd’s Rendition of All the Money in the World
Money - A Chart of All of It, Where It Is and What It Can Do [xkcd.com] by Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd is the epitome of all infographics: an immensely large chart, accompanied by some immensely small captions, that together compare the different amounts of money flowing in the world. From single dollar amounts to those huge trillion numbers that we now regularly hear about in the news, it’s all included by representing the individual quantities by an accompanying number of small squares.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv12ifKHos1qhn3smo1_1280.jpg)
Money - A Chart of All of It, Where It Is and What It Can Do [xkcd.com] by Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd is the epitome of all infographics: an immensely large chart, accompanied by some immensely small captions, that together compare the different amounts of money flowing in the world. From single dollar amounts to those huge trillion numbers that we now regularly hear about in the news, it’s all included by representing the individual quantities by an accompanying number of small squares.
Who owes what to whom?
Americans are enormously mobile: 37.5 million people moved from one house to another last year, with 4.3 million of them moving between states. This mobility makes us efficient seekers of economic improvement—moving into, and then leaving, cities like Phoenix as their fortunes rise and fall.
Hispanics Reviving Faded Towns on the Plains
Change can be unsettling in a small town. But not long ago in this quiet farming community, with its familiar skyline of grain elevators and church steeples, the owner of a new restaurant decided to acknowledge the community’s diversity by adding some less traditional items to her menu. Cheeseburgers. French fries. Chicken-fried steak.
Occupy George circulates dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics about economic disparity
What Do People Feel about their Economic Outlook
After asking people for their opinion on the topics of Osama bin Laden’s death and the U.S. Debt Crisis, The New York Times now presents another approach to gather, and then map, the thoughts of the public at large, in the form of a so-called opinion visualization.
