Planet Money’s Graphing America series asks the question; What do those people do on the weekends, when they’re not working?
Taking data from the American Time Use Survey (conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics), they answer the question below.
(via NPR’s Planet Money)
NPR’s Planet Money have a couple of new charts showcasing the change in the immigration as a share of the U.S. population over the past century. Given the rhetoric on immigration it’s interesting to note how this percentage has barely changed over the past 100 years.
The also note:
A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.
(via Planet Money)
Simon Wardley’s fantastically accurate representation of the enterprise IT adoption cycle.
While the chart could be dismissed as a bit of fun, it has it’s origins in a tweet below from Joe Drumgoole. I challenge those of you working in a corporate IT environment to confess there’s not some truth in it.
The technology adoption route for IT departments: Ignore, prevent, tolerate, allow, integrate.
— Joe Drumgoole (@jdrumgoole) July 3, 2012
(via Adoption cycles)
(h/t boingboing)
Visual.ly explaining the age old email conundrum of why you sometimes don’t get replys to emails. We’ve all been there…
(via visual.ly)
As part of NPR’s Graphing America series, Planet Money takes a look at how the poor, middle class and rich spend their money. Not surprisingly, the poor spend more of their money on essentials like groceries and utilities while the rich spend more on education and saving for retirement.
The figures highlighted in the graph above come from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which includes lots of useful data on spending patterns in the U.S.
(via Planet Money)
Sociological Images’s Lisa Wade has good concise blog post highlighting the errors in a recent set of graphics released by the Romney campaign. She points out:
Mitt Romney’s campaign put out a set of graphics illustrating a “gap” between what Obama promised and what he has delivered. The graphic is in the form of a Venn diagram, a visual designed to show the overlap between two conditions…
Unfortunately, Romney’s overlapping circles are not Venn diagrams, making the campaign somewhat ridiculous and giving nerdy liberals all over America a good chuckle.
Graphjam also weights in on the subject:
(via Sociological Images and Graphjam)
(h/t Boingboing)
The fascinating graphic below – from NPR – details US federal government spending and how this has changed from 50 years ago, 25 years ago and last year. It categories spending into areas such as defense, social security and medicaid.
For more details on the categorisations above, check out Planet Money’s blog post on the chart.
Data source: Office of Management and Budget
(via NPR Planet Money)
President Barack Obama budget for 2013 was submitted to Congress earlier this week. The document is more that 250 pages long, but helpfully the New Your Times have created a cool interactive visualization of budget spending data. Created by Shan Carter, it provides four ways of exploring where the $3.7 Trillion is spent.
To experience the full interactive budget, and explore types of spending, spending by departments and changes since last year, head over to NYTimes.
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