Well, at least we get nice visuals out of it…
I’ve been sick on and off all last week, spending a lot of time at following the news. Equity markets are cruddy, and credit markets are even worse (hey, my state can’t even get credit).
Everyone is looking for information, but most of it just can’t be easily understood if you’re a lay person. Fortunately there are lots of great visual graphics to bring the true horror home! Here are some I found…
A Year of Heavy Losses (treemap) from nytimes.com via Flowing Data
And a map of the market on September 17th, hint RED is BAD!
Map of the Market (blood red treemap) smartmoney.com via information aesthetics
The New Global Wealth Machine blogs.nytimes.com via information aesthetics
The Downturn in Facts and Figures (collection) from bbc.co.uk via information aesthetics
How a Market Crisis Unfolded (event timeline) nytimes.com via information aesthetics
The Finance Crisis (graphs) nytimes.com via information aesthetics
Business Knowledge Maps (network maps) newsvisual.com via information aesthetics
Other visuals that are not as easily reproduced in static form are here:
Crunched by the Credit Crisis (bubble graph) portfolio.com via information aesthetics
Headlines as Tag Cloud Wordnews via information aesthetics
History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts (bubble graph) propublica.org via information aesthetics
I think that the results are best summed up here by Jennifer Hagy:
