What Shopping Cart?
posted in: External Other, The Economics Devision
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Instant Soundtrack Generator
posted in: External Other, External Viz, The Cultural Devision
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Meet Otomata, an online audio toy ready to lay tracks for your independent feature film!
Start out with something simple…
…and then add a few more cells anywhere to crank up the existential tension!
Links to your compositions (and associated plot lines) are welcome in the comments.
The Self-Employed: Same As It Ever Was?
posted in: ACM Charts, Features, The Economics Devision
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According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the self-employed consist of “active proprietors or partners who devote a majority of their working hours to their unincorporated businesses.” Another thing the BEA says is that, despite the civilian labor force tripling during the same period, the number of self-employed persons in the United States has remained fairly constant over the last 80 years.
The only thing that has changed is industry composition…
Where we once had farmers, we now have service providers. But does that explain why the self-employed went from 21% the size of the labor force down to 6%? Do we have fewer independent operators in the economy or are more of them turning to the corporate or LLC structure to protect themselves from the modern consumer?
[Self-Employment data via BEA NIPA Tables 6.7A-D; Civilian Labor Force figures from ERP B-35]
November Traffic Alert
posted in: External Images, The Space Cadets
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If you’re planning a trip in your spaceship in early November, keep your eye out for Asteroid 2005 YU55:
Oh, you don’t have a spaceship…Â Never mind.
[NASA via BoingBoing]
Population Density (or, What a Difference a Scale Makes)
posted in: Ape Con Myth, Input, Maps
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The year, 1994. The world’s population, 5.6 billion. How bunched up were we then?
Plenty of room to breathe, right? But where is everyone else?
Suddenly it’s getting a little crowded in here, particularly considering most of the grey area is quite inhospitable. Thankfully there’s no one around to call us an invasive species.
Other population density info:
- 2003 Population Density Map
- Wikipedia entry w/2006 country-level data
- Population Density Stats by country/territory
- U.S. Population Density by City and State
- And for reference, Historical/Projected World Population 1950-2050
Go!, Go!, Go!
posted in: Library, The Cultural Devision
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Your skepticism has been duly noted, but believe me, this is only the beginning…
Better quality, bigger screen, Go!
[Speed Racer on IMDb]
The Necessities –> Water –> Drought
posted in: Ape Con Myth, Input, Maps
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- Global Drought Monitor – University College London Department of Space and Climate Physics
- U.S. Drought Portal – National Integrated Drought Information System
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| U.S. Drought Monitor | Drought Impact Reporter |
- Other drought info/coverage
Dear Target Shoppers,
posted in: The Economics Devision
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If your dog spills this much water on the floor, please consider using a rag. You might find you don’t need an 8-pack of paper towels anymore.
And seriously Target, out of every item in your store, you want to tell us about the paper towels?
2007 U.S. GDP in Pie-Vision!
posted in: ACM 123, ACM Infographics, Features, Mapping, The Economics Devision
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Five days a week (or more), millions of Americans leave their homes to go to “work”. What does it all add up to? Gross Domestic Product, the sum of all final goods and services.
Below, we have the United States’ $14.1 trillion GDP from 2007, which means you are also looking at the output from the largest economy on Earth that year.
(click image to explore – (it’s a large file, so give it a second))
What do you see? For those game to squeeze their mind grapes, please put any thoughts or questions in the comments to guide future research. This is only the beginning of digging into GDP…
Wasted URLs: Unicorn.com
posted in: External Images, External Screenshot, Smog
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There’s pretty much no excuse for this redirect. Of all the places in the IBM empire, something called WebSphere is where they send people looking for unicorn.com?
This is more what we’re looking for when the subject is unicorns…
This domain should be surrendered at once to a commission of elementary school kids who will be charged with its protection from non-awesome incarnations in the future.
The Days of the One-Man Band are Back Again
posted in: The Cultural Devision, Video
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