Comments on: What everybody ought to know about unemployment in the U.S. http://bzintelguru.com/dashboards/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-unemployment-in-the-u-s/ Data is cheap, insights are priceless Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Munoz http://bzintelguru.com/dashboards/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-unemployment-in-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-239 John Munoz Wed, 12 May 2010 13:42:13 +0000 http://bzintelguru.com/?p=1254#comment-239 Thanks Alex. Excellent points. You hit the nail right on the head for the long-term unemployed. The BLS data that I got on that segment breaks it down by demographic and industry. I didn't see a geo based breakdown. Regardless, those two splits should provide plenty to look at. Will have to give some thought to your point about the logic-based summaries. I haven't implemented anything like that in Excel, but it would be interesting to try to programatically determine interesting facts to point out on the dashboard. Thanks Alex. Excellent points.

You hit the nail right on the head for the long-term unemployed. The BLS data that I got on that segment breaks it down by demographic and industry. I didn’t see a geo based breakdown. Regardless, those two splits should provide plenty to look at.

Will have to give some thought to your point about the logic-based summaries. I haven’t implemented anything like that in Excel, but it would be interesting to try to programatically determine interesting facts to point out on the dashboard.

]]> By: Alex Kerin http://bzintelguru.com/dashboards/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-unemployment-in-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Alex Kerin Wed, 12 May 2010 13:19:29 +0000 http://bzintelguru.com/?p=1254#comment-238 I like the dashboard a lot - I think in any dashboard there's some room for text statements - pithy summaries that could be logic based or just written in - "X are unemployed, down from Y last month", "Those out of work for more than X months continue to..." For the bar chart, I would perhaps get rid of it and just add the actual values as a second axis on the line chart above, though you would have to see how the non-zero axis would work for that. The group of most concern is the long-term unemployed - how about some details about them - demographic, industry, geographic. Excellent work. I like the dashboard a lot – I think in any dashboard there’s some room for text statements – pithy summaries that could be logic based or just written in – “X are unemployed, down from Y last month”, “Those out of work for more than X months continue to…”

For the bar chart, I would perhaps get rid of it and just add the actual values as a second axis on the line chart above, though you would have to see how the non-zero axis would work for that.

The group of most concern is the long-term unemployed – how about some details about them – demographic, industry, geographic.

Excellent work.

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