The Lovely Charts and Graphs Thread

[Count Bobulescu]

Tax evasion in Greece by postal code.

[Count Bobulescu]

Graphing the history of philosophy.

[C. Flower]

Very elegant graphs, Count Bobolescu. Without links to their source, however, I don't know who collected the data, how or when, so would not be able to use them for reference purposes.

[C. Flower]

The economic history of the last 2000 years China/India/US etc.

I've seen a number of long term GDP graphs over the last few years, based on global data. They broadly show similar trends.

When people are considering the flat lining US and EU economies, this is a useful context to have in the back of the mind. Too many people still think that the current crisis is just another blip (although a big one) on a road to ever increasing prosperity.

[Count Bobulescu]

Scary rather than lovely chart.




http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...carier/259625/

[Count Bobulescu]

Apple’s first and current logo.

[Count Bobulescu]

Just how powerful had consumer electronics giant Apple become by the year its founder, Steve Jobs, died? As seen in the chart above, its market capitalization now exceeds that of all the publicly traded Italian, Irish, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese banks – combined.

[Count Bobulescu]

Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...-graph/253736/

[C. Flower]

Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...-graph/253736/

Not really surprising considering competition from TV and online ads.

[Count Bobulescu]

Not really surprising considering competition from TV and online ads.

TV was sucking up adv. revenue long before 2000, so I think it is exclusively online that is to “blame”. It was the migration of classified advertising to cheaper or free sources like Craigslist etc. as opposed to the larger retail store type display advertising wot dunnit.

[Count Bobulescu]

If you spun a globe and stopped your finger 12 times on 12 random countries, they just might make more sense for a monetary union than the euro zone.

That's the conclusion from this awesomely clever chart showing the difficulty, and maybe impossibility, of the euro experiment (click to expand).

Read more.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...doomed/256793/

[Count Bobulescu]

Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute has a new paper out calculating what countries are manipulating their currencies downward the most by hoarding reserves of foreign currencies. Here they are in order:



But of course, the reason people fret about China is not because its holdings are so big relative to its economy but because, given the size of the Chinese economy, that means the holdings are huge:





http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-manipulators/

[Count Bobulescu]

The accelerating march of technology. You may need to read the full story before the graph makes sense.



.. Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That's a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line:

-- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones

-- In 1915, <10% of families owned a car

-- In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer

-- In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning

-- In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV

-- In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave

-- In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...-graph/255573/

[Count Bobulescu]

Click link for international housing bubble chart, and note the position of Ireland.


http://www.theatlanticcities.com/hou...ng-bubble/734/

[Count Bobulescu]

GDP of European countries compared to US cities. NYC surpasses Australia and almost equals Spain.



http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...y-rank/260254/