Last month real unemployment stood at 17.5% and 27.4 million Americans were out of work. These aren’t the figures you’ll hear or read in the media, but they’re very important nonetheless.
Here are two interactive visualizations I put together showing beverage consumption, in gallons, from 1985 through 2007. The data are from the US Department of Agriculture.
There are a host of interesting things in the data. From 1985 through 2007 the biggest changes are:
–A sextupling in consumption of bottled water
–A 50% increase in diet soda consumption
–A 60% decrease in whole milk consumption
–A doubling in skim milk consumption
It’s interesting to see how beer consumption hovered around 24 gallons per person per year from 1985 through 1990 and then dropped off and …
Education Pays!
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Fact: High school dropouts are three times more likely to be jobless than college graduates.
Fact: People with some college make 50% more than high school dropouts.
Fact: A college graduate earns almost twice as much as a high school graduate.
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The smart money knows that insights are often buried deep in data. So go beyond the headlines and check out this detailed dashboard for valuable insights into Unemployment that you won’t see anywhere else.
Protovis small multiple mockup of bls.gov data showing 10 yr trend of weekly hours of production for 39 industries, courtesy the Business Intelligence Guru.
Averages have their place, but the smart money knows that insights are often buried deep in data. Check out this detailed dashboard for valuable insights that you won’t see on TV or read in the papers.
Of all the open source developer visualization tool kits I’ve seen so far, the one I stumbled upon today (thanks Moritz Stefaner), named Protovis, seems the most practical and easy to use. Protovis comes from Stanford’s visualization group, with the help of Jeff Heer and Michael Bostock.
Below is a screen grab of some of the visualizations created using Protovis.
While there are some graphs in the examples that we might want to stay away from, those radial fan (sunburst?) type charts are just plain confusing, I think the ability …
Please take some time to check out this link. It’s a lot of fun, insightful, and eye-grabbing, and there are a bunch of these beautiful, hand-drawn diagrams and charts.
