July 2010

What a Toxic Asset looks like [Planet Money]

by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 27, 2010

I have been enjoying a series of podcasts by Plant Money’s team in which they bought toxic asset which has more than 2,000 mortgages. They paid $1,000 for a piece that used to be worth around $75,000.

Their interactive graphic shows how this asset was created with mortgages across the country, how many payments they have received from it, and how it has been losing value.

In the beginning Dec 2006, “Toxie” was a little sick

But by July 2010, “Toxie” was a almost dead…

Tagged as: Bar Chart, Choropleth Map, Interactive Graphic, Pie chart

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FTSE 100 Visualized [Jeremy Christopher]

by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 23, 2010

in Other

Posters and book created by Jeremy Christopher found via Datavisualization.ch

The poster is one of several which explain the history, value, and composition of the FTSE 100. It is rare that I see basic financial data visualized with this much attention to the aesthetics of the design.

The book pages layer to create the center color circles which represent the sectors weightings which I though was clever.

Tagged as: Bar Chart, Circle Chart, Financial markets, United Kingdom, Untitled

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Where are the billionaires?

by Catherine Mulbrandon on July 21, 2010

in Other

Found via FastCoDesign

Each circle represents a billionaire but when appropriate the company that they associated with is labeled. And of course United States leads the way with number of billionaires. I liked seeing the data presented on a map; having a geographic distribution shows off the number of non-US billionaires. It would have been nice to see their net worth included in the infographic.