20 Apr 2009 Notes, Opinions Economics, Financial
Jorge Camoes has written a fantastic follow up post called “Sub-Prime Charts: Should Data Visualization Be Boring?” to an article from Paul Krugman for the New York Times. Krugman discusses the influence of fancy financing on business decisions and how those had to change after the great depression. Camoes goes on and translates those ideas [...] Read more
26 Feb 2009 Showcases Economics

The Freebase blog posted a visualization of data about the network of american companies. This example displays the connection between companies based on shared board members. Read more
11 Feb 2009 Showcases Economics, Infographics

Nathan over at FlowingData covers two visualizations of the economic stimulus plan by the Obama administration. CreditLoan's approach seems more intuitive while the version of the Washington Post goes deeper and visualizes the timeline of the spendings. Read more