2009

Length of unemployment (1980-2009)

by Catherine Mulbrandon

Paying Down the National Debt via YouTube

by Catherine Mulbrandon

Homemade video trying to show why it is not a problem that China owns part of the U.S. government’s debt. Scroll 3 minutes into the video and you can see how he used low-tech paper to explain what would happen if we pay down the debt. No fancy graphics needed.

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Infomation Visualization- LIVE

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

Jonathan Jarvis attempts to create, in front of a live audience, a visualization of Obama’s stimulus plan. The visualization part starts about 2 minutes in to the video. Unfortunately, the sound and shaky camera make it difficulty to follow but it is an interest experiment in using infodesign to facilitate the conversation around fiscal policy.

The Stimulus: Unpacked - Footage from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Visual Storytelling: Credit Crisis

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

An interactive graphic from the Wall Street Journal, which takes the data for 6 key financial indicators and stacks them while rollover text annotates the main events of the crisis. Created by Andrew Garcia Phillips, Stephen Grocer and Kate Milani.

I think the visual display of the data is very effective however the rollover text annotations are not effective since you can’t use them to follow the underlining story in the data visualization.

While I appreciate Google Finance integrating the news story with the graphic which allows you to use the data visualization find related news stories you lose the different data series and there still is no coherent story for the graphic.