Sunday, November 22, 2009
unemployment movie
Click the map to see unemployment change monthly, from January 2007 through September 2009. This map/unemployment story is by LaToya Egwuekwe.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
(click image to enlarge) This graph indicates the approximate number of new authors per year as a percentage of the 2009 world population, from 1400 through 2013 (estimate). Soon nearly everyone will be a "writer".
Read more about the increase in the number of authors/writers, from the 1400's to the present, here: A Writing Revolution
Thursday, October 22, 2009
world population growth
This graph comes from TREEHUGGER, a Discovery company, showing world population growth from 1750 through 2050.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
US National Debts Clock
What is the US National Debt? How much of that debt is yours? How much is the US budget deficit? What are the largest budget items? What about trade deficits? And much, much more!
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Saturday, October 03, 2009
2008 election vote counts
Click the state map for details about vote count results for the 2008 elections.
Friday, October 02, 2009
prison population list
World Prison Population List
And Texas is NUMBER ONE here in the US of A.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Contiguous United States Visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald's
Where The Buffalo Roamed
Friday, July 31, 2009
Statistics, Studies and the Arts: A Plea For More & Better
Judith H. Dobrzynski
Thursday, July 30, 2009
National Debt, Your Share, Population
Friday, May 22, 2009
government data
"The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead."
How to use Data.gov
Data.gov includes a searchable data catalog that includes access to data in two ways: through the "raw" data catalog and using tools. Please note that by accessing datasets or tools offered on Data.gov, you agree to the Data Policy, which you should read before accessing any dataset or tool. If there are additional datasets that you would like to see included on this site, please suggest more datasets here. For more information on how to use Data.gov, view our tutorial.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Economic Stress Index By County
Monday, March 23, 2009
Immigration Explorer by the New York Times
The New York Times has created the Immigration Explorer so you can see, at 10 year intervals, who, and from where, immigrants moved to the USA.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
"...data and statistics."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/20/president-obamas-inaugura_n_159370.html
You can't know where you've been, where you are, or where you are going without data and statistics.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Immigration to the United States, 1820-2007
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Global Warming & Sea Level Rise
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Housing Crisis
This interactive graph will allow you to compare home prices across the nation for the last 20 years.Click HERE for an interactive housing vacancy rate map.
CURRENT RENT RATIO: The purchase price of a typical house divided by the annual rent of that house. Click HERE for a national map of selected cities.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Income By Presidential Party
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Dow Jones Industrial Average
These graphs may begin to look familiar over the next few months. If so, you know what to do in November...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
World's Top Surveillance Societies
"Privacy International, a UK privacy group, and the U.S.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center have put together a world map of surveillance societies, rating various nations for their civil liberties records."More information here:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/worlds-top-surv.html
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Where does your money go?
Now you can see how your tax dollars are spent. The graph and table to the left, to select an arbitrary expenditure by year, during the Bush administration, is for shredding contracts. Apparently there is a whole lot of shredding goin on! This data, and much more, can be found at USAspending.gov.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Black Monday
Friday, October 19, 2007, was the 20th anniversay of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the stock market (NYSE: New York Stock Exchange, is what we usually mean by "stock market") took, to be polite, a dip.
The Stock Market under Democratic & Republican administrations:
President Party Date Months in Office Annualized Stock Return
Truman D 11/48-10/52 48 18.28%
Eisenhower R 11/52-10/60 96 14.96%
Kennedy D 11/60-10/63 36 15.15%
Johnson D 11/63-10/68 60 10.39%
Nixon R 11/68-7/74 69 -1.32%
Ford R 8/74-10/76 27 17.21%
Carter D 11/76-10/80 48 11.04%
Reagan R 11/80-10/88 96 15.18%
Bush R 11/88-10/92 48 14.44%
Clinton D 11/92-10/00 96 19%
Bush, G.W. R 11/00-2/06 63 -0.92%
Average from 1948 to Feb. 2006
Democrat 42.8% 15.26%
Republican 57.2% 9.53%
Overall 100% 11.95%
Source of this table: http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/futureinvest/3022
Monday, October 15, 2007
French GDP per hour worked as a percentage of US GDP per hour worked since 1960
Perhaps the French were very lazy in the 60's, or spending too much time drinking wine and having sex, or busy revolting. Anyway, they seem to have finally gotten their act together and now appear to be beating the US at productivity as though this country was a rented mule. Or do I have that backwards?
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Arctic Sea Ice
This seems like an approriate time to mention Al Gore and his books...
- Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
The Assault on Reason
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
The 50-Lawyer Poll
What happens when you ask 50 defense attorneys who’ve worked on federal terrorism cases since 9/11 their opinions of the legal war on terror?You can express your opinion through this interactive poll.
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