From Flowing Data comes this map of job losses. (The above represents June of 2009.) It's fun to go back to 2004 and watch all the nice green job creation bubbles turn red and DIE. (Also the Katrina explosion is fascinating.) And I don't know, we are reelecting the corporate gift-giving mayor of New York City for what reason, now?
Friday, October 9, 2009
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I think Flowing Data is having its period.
Blue states.
Because we're the only ones who do any work around here.
Like sending Awl e-newsletters?????
Woah. This thing looks like that thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOHEU7Ykyg
So my decision to move to New York was only slightly less bone-headed than moving to California would have been. In any case, I should have stayed in Portland.
This is fun HOW???
I think there's a cream for that.
We need to learn to eat over the middle of the map.
In fairness, I would be interested in seeing this on a per capita basis.
I think I have seen this data disputed before as being misleading precisely for that reason. It's somewhere on the Internet out there...
This map correctly indicates where people live and not much more than that.
also terrorist targets.
Apparently rice-farming, crawfish-peeling, Southern lawyering, oil working and rebuilding entire cities after a couple of hurricanes still pay. Go Louisiana!
This bears an eerie resemblance to the NORAD video map in "Wargames."
This map should learn to lie
the most interesting thing about this map, to me, is that the red explosions started in Jan 2008: 10 months before the economy "collapsed," and precisely when economists belatedly pinpointed the beginning of the recession. Why did it take so long for the best and brightest to notice 100s of thousands of jobs evaporating in the major metro centers?