Many more data visualization examples related to the financial crisis can be found on Paul Kedrosky's "Infectious Greed" blog.
I discussed a financial crisis primer in PowerPoint earlier here.
More on heatmaps here and here.
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Financial crisis - at least there are opportunities for data visualization...
The current financial crisis is a "gold mine" for data visualization. Below is a heatmap taken from a recent IMF report on the world's financial (in)stability. The chart shows how the troubles have spread from subprime mortgages to other asset classes over the course of 2007 and 2008.
Many more data visualization examples related to the financial crisis can be found on Paul Kedrosky's "Infectious Greed" blog.
I discussed a financial crisis primer in PowerPoint earlier here.
More on heatmaps here and here.
Many more data visualization examples related to the financial crisis can be found on Paul Kedrosky's "Infectious Greed" blog.
I discussed a financial crisis primer in PowerPoint earlier here.
More on heatmaps here and here.
Reviewing the SlideShare financial crisis presentation contest winners
The winners of the SlideShare presentation contest about the financial crisis were announced a few days ago.
- My general point about SlideShare-style presentations being great for online viewing but not always the best solution for live audiences still stands.
- The content of the winning presentation is not surprising, most of us will have picked up the messages from the newspaper. It is a shame that none of the winners used visualization of data from original analysis to give us a really new insight in the subject matter.
- It is great to see how contests like these can spark so much creativity in people submitting their work.
Having said that, let's discuss the graphical execution of the winners:
The winner:
I like this presentation, especially the use of images (the historical paintings look great, the falling knife almost makes you feel the pain in your own hands.)
Number 2:
Not judging the content here, I like the execution of this presentation less. The link between the text and the images is not that strong.
Number 3:
UPDATED. While I generally do not like simple graphics like clip art in presentations, this presentation uses this technique beautifully. All graphics are custom-made. They have a consistent style, and the "simplistic" graphics provide a good tongue-in-cheek contrast to the really complicated subject matter and the whole thing hangs together well.
Financial crisis explained in PowerPoint
A post on The Big Picture in February 2008 points to a "cartoonesk" PowerPoint presentation explaining the current crisis in the financial markets. We all should have listened to it...
There is no credit though for who created this file, also some explicit 4-letter words inside. (UPDATE, in slideshare an author is mentioned, not sure whether the person who uploaded it also created it)
For those who want to know it all in detail in a classic presentation packed with dense facts, I embed another presentation. It is not written in Presentation Zen-style, but most of the data charts are designed correctly. Viewing in full-screen mode is essential.
Update: Presentation Zen adds another explanation video here.
Chart concept - confusion
A client needed to visualize the regulatory uncertainty in his industry after the financial crisis. This traffic light tree in London is a very useful art installation that you can use in many other confusing situations. The high rises of large financial services firms in the back help complete the picture (my client works in that industry).
The Internet is full of images of the sculpture. Try searching Flickr for images with a Creative Commons license.
Images that stick - this week's Economist cover
Update, a slight show with many Economist covers of the past years warning about the upcoming crisis:
Data visualizations - how bad is this recession compared to previous ones?
The only up side of economic turmoil is probably that there is plenty of data available for interesting visualizations. The New York Times posted this chart: (click for a larger picture)
I like it because the designer gave some thought about what metric to put in. He/she could have shown a times series of GDP growth, absolute unemployment, or unemployment rate to name just a few. That's why I do not like these automated PowerPoint chart wizards, it makes you skip the step of actually thinking about what metric really makes your point. (And more importantly, what are the 15 metrics you can get rid of without changing anything to the message of your slide).
Via Junk Charts, an excellent source of data visualization discussions. For more frequent updates about the financial crisis (including many data visualizations) follow Paul Kedrosky.
"The coming end of the middle class"
Weekend reading/viewing. I got to this video by Harvard Law scholar Elizabeth Warren via Twitter:
There are many "doom" videos and presentations out there at the moment, reinforcing the state of mind of the current economical crisis. This one stands out, and I sat through the entire 57 minutes (skipping the first introduction bits).
Elizabeth managed to make an exact like-for-like / inflation-adjusted comparison between the financial situation of families in the 1970s and the early 2000s. Her main conclusion: Americans haven't taken out all that credit to finance blind purchases of consumption goods such as cars, gadgets, holidays, etc. Some of the messages:
- Per person income hasn't really increased over the past 30 years, women just started to enter the workforce, pushing household incomes up
- Expenditure on items such as appliances, clothing, food (including restaurants) did not really go up
- We did spend a lot more on housing ("parents are buying schools"), child care, healthcare, and college education
- Risk has increased for the highly leveraged 2-kid family: illness, divorce, job loss
This blog is not about economics. But from a presentation perspective, this video is worth watching. The slides are strictly statistical, poorly formated, almost resembling a 1990s overhead sheet, the speaker does not move, still the story is truly captivating. Captivating because many, many people (me included) are looking for the answer to the issue Elizabeth is raising. We just want to stay until the end to find out.
Another example of why giving everything away on page one of your presentation is not always the right thing to do.
The video was recorded on 8 March 2007, added to YouTube on 31 January 2008, but very timely to watch in December 2008.
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