data visualization – flowingmotion

Did you study economics?

I’ve never studied economics formally but I wish I had. Not because I think Economists get right. Some of my best friends are economists (:) really!). They are intelligent, thinking people. But they rarely get anything right.

I wish I’d studied economics because I think it is important to understand economic statistics. How can we function without knowing where the economy is going? How can we make political choices if we don’t understand what is happening around us?

Thankfully contemporary visualizations help us understand economic data

I might be let off my need to improve my economic literacy by the accelerating trend to slurp numbers and arrange them so that more of us can understand them.

On almost every indicator, the US economy seems to have bottomed and turned. It’s a snappy little presentation allowing us to click quickly through ten indicators. The data readjusts with a springy look which reminds us, I think, the short-term instability of economic data.

Before I saw this visualization, I hadn’t appreciated how well the American economy is doing.

I wish we have an equivalent presentation on UK economy.

Who is audacious enough to hope?

Do have a look. I find myself not daring to hope that they are true. I wonder how many more people want to wait a bit before they get their hopes up?

Do you believe that executives are worth their pay?

85% of people voting on The Economist debate beginning today vote NO.

You can vote as well!

Yes or No?

Do you have a professional interest in pay?

If you are a

work & organizational psychologist
HR manager
union official
manager
politician
political activist

I encourage you to log in to the debate and read the comments. It is free.

I usually skim over the contributions from the public because I doubt anyone is reading.

But this time, the comments from the public on executive pay provide invaluable data.

Would you like to join a research team on the executive pay debate?

This is an unusual opportunity to document the pay debate and to establish a reputation in compensation management.

Could you help with

recording the comments (or slurping them off the net)?
listing the arguments by parsing and analyzing them with software or by hand?
summarizing which questions were asked & answered?
writing up the report?
preparing compelling visual presentations?
marketing & distributing the report?

Please let me know what you can do, and I will put together a team. If you aren’t particularly internet-literate, that is fine too. We could do with people who contribute substantive questions and who review and edit the project as it proceeds.

Tag: data visualization

You will understand the economic indicators of the US with this visualizaton