Visualizing US unemployment

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Visualizing US unemployment

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Check this out!

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/la ... final.html

It's really neat - look at how MI is already totally fucked at the start, MS too, and how by the end of the animation the whole South, Midwest, and West Coast all have over 10% unemployment. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out - actually, I wonder if the people who made it could build unemployment history since 1930 into it.
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Re: Visualizing US unemployment

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As several posters are fond of stating, the way the BLS calculates unemployment data has changed over the years and while it is possible to pick and choose metrics from today and the 1930s, the resulting data would not be a very meaningful visualization.
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