While creating my newest chart (displaying the daily price change of the S&P 500 back to 1950), I noticed that 8 out of the 22 worst days occurred in October (including the infamous 20% drop in 1987). Fear not! October has 5 out of the 15 best days. Afterall what comes down, must go up.
Data from Yahoo Finance
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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.
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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.
Still, I have found the most effective storytelling using data visualizations uses a person to narrate the story.
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The total return of the S&P 500 index fell by nearly 40% last year, the second-worst performance by America’s stockmarket since 1825…
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Visualizing Economics was started in 2006 by Catherine Mulbrandon. Here you will find graphics explaining the US economy.
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