The long-term unemployed population continues to grow. In March 2010 nearly 500,000 Americans joined the 6.1MM Americans who’ve been jobless for more than 6 months.
It’s been a little over 5 months since I first published my Dashboard of Unemployment in the U.S. I’m happy to say that my dashboard comes in #1 for the search words, ‘Unemployment Dashboard.’ Read on and see all the latest insights that a well-designed dashboard can squeeze out of the BLS’ unemployment data.
The long-term unemployed population continues to grow. In January another 200,000 Americans were added to the pile of 6.1MM Americans who’ve been jobless for more than 6 months. Find more eye-opening facts in my award-winning information dashboard of unemployment in the U.S.
This post addresses a post on Dashboard Insight’s site titled, “7 Small Business Dashboard Design Dos and Dont’s” Hi Stacey, I read your post with great interest, after all, who wouldn’t like to know the 7 rules of dashboard design? As soon as I got to the 19th word of your post, “colorful” I knew …
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TinkerPlots is data exploration software aimed at kids, the beautiful thing about it is that it’s great for adults too. The creators of this tool have designed the software in such a way that it gets out of your way, and encourages you to explore data, not fight with the interface.
The analysis of Amazon’s Kindle reviews continues. The Business Intelligence Guru may have uncovered evidence of fake reviews on Amazon.com.
December’s unemployment figures show continued increase in long-term unemployed population. They now account for 40% of all jobless Americans. Read and see more in my award winning information dashboard of unemployment in the U.S.
See how bad pie charts and faulty analytics lands NYTimes blogger Nick Bilton in hot water with best selling author Seth Godin and The Business Intelligence Guru.
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 …
