Although I tend to concentrate on events in science, this came by this morning, from a coworker at ORA who retired some years back, Barry Broome. This website, assembled by the magazine Slate, gives a very nice, very detailed, and reportedly unaltered, report that compiles the growth of unemployment for each county in the US by month since 2006. While the results are discouraging, and I’m sure there are more than a few ways to interpret them, what is impressive is that the data can now be compiled so quickly and displayed so effectively.
http://www.slate.com/id/2216238
It is very instructive to active the “play” button and see the map evolve. If you have 2 minutes, check it out.
Note if you launch from here, I found you have to click a few times to activate it. I tried copying in a static map to increase your curiosity, but, I’m afraid you’ll actually have to click on the link.
