Chart o' Doom

quotingthecrisis: Cumulative bank failures in 2008, 2009, and...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:31:24 -0400

Cumulative bank failures in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

— Barry Ritholtz in Bank Cash Assets, Failure, Trends | The Big Picture

When will New Jersey’s public pension fund go...

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:27:43 -0400

When will New Jersey’s public pension fund go bankrupt?

(via Pension Pulse: No Garden-Variety Public Pension Crisis?)

This is starting to look like a proper Chart o’ Doom...

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:07:55 -0400

This is starting to look like a proper Chart o’ Doom again. Including the census, we’re turning down again. Excluding the census, our recovery wasn’t too hot even with trillions of dollars spent on the problem.

(via CalculatedRisk)

15 things you never knew about Evel Knievel Sorry, this is too...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:57:00 -0400

15 things you never knew about Evel Knievel

Sorry, this is too sweet not to share (I loved Evel Knievel as a child. Turns out he wasn’t a very good role model), even if it means being a whore to SEO. Plus, you’ve got to admit, providing cool infographics in exchange for links is one of the better SEO strategies out there.

(via Motorcycle Insurance)

“We’ve dubbed this chart the “Scariest Job...

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:31:17 -0400

“We’ve dubbed this chart the “Scariest Job Chart Ever,” as it shows how the decline in employment is WAY uglier than in past recessions.

Calculated Risk has updated it with the latest numbers from this morning, and now it looks even scarier.

Why?

Check out the two red lines at the bottom. The solid one includes Census hiring, while the dotted line doesn’t include it.

What’s clear is that while we still have a rebound including Census hiring, we’re already flattening out on the dotted line. This is a shape not seen on the other lines. suggesting that the fall is extremely deep, and the recovery is shallow.”

CHART OF THE DAY: The Scariest Job Chart Ever Just Got Even Scarier

Recovery - return to an original state. We’ve got a long...

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:41:19 -0400

Recovery - return to an original state.

We’ve got a long way to go.

(via)

The Cost of Retirement (via The Big Picture) Save more.

Mon, 31 May 2010 01:54:58 -0400

The Cost of Retirement (via The Big Picture)

Save more.

The truth about alcoholism (via Medical Insurance) We’ll...

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:46:10 -0400

The truth about alcoholism (via Medical Insurance)

We’ll drink to our own doom!

Chart o’ Doom: Delicious Obesity Edition FiveThirtyEight:...

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:17:41 -0400

Chart o’ Doom: Delicious Obesity Edition

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Double Down by the Numbers: Unhealthiest Sandwich Ever?

via jeffmiller

continuum:dataviz Chart o’ Doom: This is where you put...

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:20:00 -0400

continuum:dataviz

Chart o’ Doom: This is where you put your weed edition

“Cornell students fed 35 million Flickr images into a...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:11:16 -0400

“Cornell students fed 35 million Flickr images into a university supercomputer to determine the most photographed landmarks. The Fifth Avenue Apple Store is the fifth most popular in New York—beating out the Statue of Liberty!—and number 28 worldwide.”

Apple Store Cube Is More Popular Landmark Than Statue of Liberty | Fast Company

It’s not exactly a chart of doom, but the left & center images above indicate an interesting distinction: from an international symbol of freedom to a postmodern shrine to consumerism.

Granted, the Apple store wins the location game, given its spot in Midtown, the more popular area. Some could argue, though, that people would make the 20 min train ride if the Statue of Liberty was important enough.

Visualizing The National Debt - Infographic - Kiplinger

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:33:59 -0400

Visualizing The National Debt - Infographic - Kiplinger

crazynutjob: Population growth in the US, prison. In 1980,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:21:03 -0500

crazynutjob:

Population growth in the US, prison.

In 1980, there were 319,598 people in prison, representing 0.14% of the US population. In 2008, there were 1,518,559 people in prison, representing 0.5% of the US population. This doesn’t include jail, probation, or parole data.

(source, source)

Cell Phone Accidents Cause for doom #1: People talk on their...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:55:56 -0500

Cell Phone Accidents

Cause for doom #1: People talk on their mobile phones while driving which causes almost a quarter of all car accidents.

Cause for doom #2: the primary solution politicians seem to favor - bans on mobile phone use while driving - appears to be more politically effective than anything.

What just happened to the soldier suicide rate? Data from 1,000...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:39:51 -0500

What just happened to the soldier suicide rate?

Data from 1,000 US Soldier Suicides

moorewr: Chart-o-doom time via DailyKos This looks...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:55:11 -0500

moorewr:

Chart-o-doom time

via DailyKos

This looks substantially less Doomy than the last time we had this exchange. The first derivative was still quite negative. Things are leveling off right now. But perhaps there’s more Doom in the future… We wonder what will happen as state budgets start to implode. Will that result in another downturn? Will it simply lessen the probability of a V-shaped recovery?

Big corporations got a little smaller in 2009. In 2009, the...

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:07:46 -0500

Big corporations got a little smaller in 2009.

In 2009, the total number of mass layoff events, at 28,030, reached its highest annual level since 1996, the first year for which these data are available.

The total number of initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits due to mass layoffs, at 2,796,456, was also the highest level on record.

(via Mass layoffs in 2009, The Editor’s Desk, BLS)

datavis: Big Brothers (via Michæl Paukner)

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:12:25 -0500

datavis:

Big Brothers (via Michæl Paukner)

“As highlighted by The Economist, only 400,000 more...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:48:11 -0500

“As highlighted by The Economist, only 400,000 more Americans were employed in 2009 vs. 1999 despite the fact that the population had grown by 30 million. Yet it gets worse — Not only has unemployment skyrocketed, but long-term unemployment has skyrocketed even higher.

The Economist: Long-term unemployment is what will make this economic downturn inordinately tough for many Americans to bear. Regardless of what headline U.S. GDP data may do, many of the people represented by the spike below will experience a multi-year personal economic downturn regardless.

Of course, it’s worth asking whether the skills they forget will even be valuable by the time things turn around.”

CHART OF THE DAY: Workers Are Unemployed So Long, They’re Forgetting Their Skills

“Think the U.S. is in a slump? Check out the World GDP...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:36:09 -0500

“Think the U.S. is in a slump? Check out the World GDP numbers for 2009. The U.S. percentage of output has remained remarkably stable, even with recent economic troubles, even with spikes in contributions by so-called “Asian tigers” (rrrarr!) — India, China, and the like. But on a per-person, level how does the output of workers in other countries stack up against the output of U.S. laborers? FastCompany.com adjusted for population and crunched the data.”

Best Bodies, Global GDP Edition | The Upswing | Fast Company

Hidden doom: the U.S. is making the best (for now) of a bad situation.