Sometimes I like to look at where my visitors are coming from. It's a little stalkerish, I know, but I want to make sure I'm putting out more of the content that my readers like to see. Anyways, I saw that one of my posts on the shrinking market caps of banks had been picked up by a blog called "Rock The Boat Marketing".
There were a few other random visualizations that they had and they all caught my eye so I wanted to repost them here (in the order of coolness):
-The first is from Flowing Data and shows the amazing Walmart expansion across the United States. Watch the density of green dots and the store count in the bottom right shoot up dramatically as the years go on. Amazing.
-The second is from Wired magazine. It is a really cool way to show 24 hours of United States flying. It tracked more that 205,000 aircraft on this one August day.
-Next is the New York Times geography of a recession. Michigan seems to be hit the worst, which was expected with the auto troubles, but California and Oregon seem pretty battered as well. If you switch over to "one-year change", you see a lot of the big swing states of the election pop up (OH, KY, IN, TN, NC, SC, GA, etc.) and it's no wonder why people became more and more interested in change as the election came closer.
-Then we have a real interesting graph from Michael Covel's blog (by JP Koning Financial Graph & Art). Which starts at base of zero and shows how far we've fallen in this financial crisis. Right now we're pretty low on weeks but scary to see we're right in the same line as 1929-32. Oy.
-Last is from Pro Publica and shows the degrees of Hank Paulson from October and his relationship with all of those failed/failing financial institutions. If you click Richard Fuld from Lehman Brothers, and see a lack of connection to Paulson, it really is not a wonder why the government decided to let them, above all others, fail.
Very cool stuff!
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