What's so great about the Dakotas? My guess is that there is a higher fraction of agriculture/rancher/self employed that simply scale back employment rather than the binary in or out of a job. "My small business is not doing very well" won't likely show up in unemployment statistics.
A beautiful illustration of the extent to which choice and distribution of colour influences the interpretation of a graphic. The ominous rushing-in of the doom-and-gloom purples and greys was just about terrifying (ok, I exaggerate a little). Would this animation have had the same effect if scaled from e.g. blue to yellow?
Did we really need those jobs in the first place?<p>I don't mean whether each individual was benefiting from the income from his or her job. Collectively, were the jobs a net benefit or drag on the rest of us?
It is really interesting to watch how things were concentrated for the first 6 to 7 months of the recession, and then we fell off the cliff last fall. This chart is another great way of seeing how that happened: <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/SsXzzDSUSqI/AAAAAAAAGfM/PWX-2daRZ0w/s1600-h/EmploymentJobLossesRecessions.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/SsXzzDSUSqI/AAAAAAAAGf...</a> (via <a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/10/october-economic-summary-in-graphs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/10/october-economic-s...</a>)
I know what I'll be thankful for this Thanks Giving - very unfortunate to see the extent of the economic blight so graphically.<p>Did we jump from 8.5 in September to 10.2 in October? That seems excessive.
This paints a pretty stark picture. Has any else noticed an increase in unsolicited calls from head hunters and job offers? I am wondering if it's me or a leading indicator?
not as detailed, but another timelapse flash visualization over a longer period of time - <a href="http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/" rel="nofollow">http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/</a>
I don't think this animation adds anything to out understanding of what has been happening: unemployment has increased everywhere, with about the same amount.