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Stress Test Results – A Classic Visualization Challange

The results of the "Stress Test - Housing Crisis of Shame" are out. I just saw NY Times publish the stress test figures this morning. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the results was, well.......not that they require another $75 billion, that's pretty well known to most of us by now, was ....gosh.....what an opportunity wasted. Here was a important and relevant piece of data that could have ...

Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants

Posted on 16 October 2008

Who would want to use something like this..... (See Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants ) ......when they could've used this instead.....

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NY Times – Home Foreclosure Graph

Posted on 07 September 2008

This appeared some time back in April-2008. What is interesting to note is that not only this chart is visually appealing but it does pack a lot of data. The color of the stacks shows the % of subprime mortgaes as a % of all mortgages in an area while the height of a stack shows subprimes mortgages foreclosed as a % of all subprime mortgages in that area. If ...

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The rise and fall of movies – NY Times

Posted on 04 September 2008

Mathew Bloch, Lee Byron, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox at NY Times produced this amazing visual showing the performance of movies at the box office between 1986 and 2008. Though the choice of an stacked area chart does not allow the reader to pick the numbers right off the chart but it certainly does pack a lot of information. Also check out the cool search feature!! The Ebb and Flow of ...

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