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From: Sierra Information Services on 1 Dec 2009 14:02
Hello...

The link below was shared on one of my Linked In groups, and I thought
I'd pass it along to SAS-L'ers, too. It shows monthly unemployment
rates by county in the US over the past several years. If you click
the "start" arrow in the middle of the map you will see how
unemployment rates have changed, by month, in the US, over the past
several years.

I have not seen a more effective or compelling representation of our
current economic situation. The link is:

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

Andrew Karp
Sierra Information Services
http://www.sierrainformation.com
From: Savian on 1 Dec 2009 22:43
On Dec 1, 12:02 pm, Sierra Information Services <sfbay0...(a)aol.com>
wrote:
> Hello...
>
> The link below was shared on one of my Linked In groups, and I thought
> I'd pass it along to SAS-L'ers, too.  It shows monthly unemployment
> rates by county in the US over the past several years.  If you click
> the "start" arrow in the middle of the map you will see how
> unemployment rates have changed, by month, in the US, over the past
> several years.
>
> I have not seen a more effective or compelling representation of our
> current economic situation.  The link is:
>
> http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html
>
> Andrew Karp
> Sierra Information Serviceshttp://www.sierrainformation.com

Fabulous graphic. Very powerful and a good use of data and GIS.

Alan
From: Ben Powell on 2 Dec 2009 04:45
Classic example of a bad graph: because it reports area of unemployment
without population density, and as a consequence is misleading.

Rgds
From: Arthur Tabachneck on 2 Dec 2009 08:04
Ben,

Since it was reporting unemployment rates, I viewed it positively and don't
see what adding population size would contribute. Sure, it could have been
made a prism graph with height representing population, but I think that would
only add some unnecessary complications (e.g., low population states being
blocked out by higher populated states).

Art
---------
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:45:36 -0500, Ben Powell <ben.powell(a)INFXSOLUTIONS.COM>
wrote:

>Classic example of a bad graph: because it reports area of unemployment
>without population density, and as a consequence is misleading.
>
>Rgds
From: Ben Powell on 2 Dec 2009 08:44
90% of the population density is urban (I'm approximating) yet 99% of the
area is non-urban, hence being a colour graph you're lead to believe the
volume of colour is important whereas in fact only a few select areas are
most relevant. The dominant colour is >10% whereas the average is much lower
- 8.5%? Hence the graph is misleading. I'm referring to the paper quoted on
the list on this subject, on what constitutes a good chart/graphic,

Rgds

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:04:58 -0500, Arthur Tabachneck <art297(a)NETSCAPE.NET>
wrote:

>Ben,
>
>Since it was reporting unemployment rates, I viewed it positively and don't
>see what adding population size would contribute. Sure, it could have been
>made a prism graph with height representing population, but I think that would
>only add some unnecessary complications (e.g., low population states being
>blocked out by higher populated states).
>
>Art
>---------
>On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:45:36 -0500, Ben Powell <ben.powell(a)INFXSOLUTIONS.COM>
>wrote:
>
>>Classic example of a bad graph: because it reports area of unemployment
>>without population density, and as a consequence is misleading.
>>
>>Rgds
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