I recently came across this nice little visualization of the yield curve from Smart Money.
They call it The Living Yield Curve. It does a nice job of showing how the yield curve has changed over time. It also allows for overlays of typical yield curve shapes, and the average and latest [...]
Tags:
Not sure how I didn’t see this before, but Google Finance now has a new(ish) feature called Google Domestic Trends. This is essentially Google Trends, but with the searched for keywords organized into useful concepts (i.e. retail, durable goods, automotive, etc.) and hooked into Google’s stock charts. This way a user can take [...]
Tags:
I came across this fascinating information visualization the other day, the OECD Business Cycle Clock.
It tracks four types of economic indicators and plots them as a time series. Play the animation and you can see how the economic indicators move through the four stages of the economic cycle: Expansion, Slowdown, Downturn, and Recovery.
But if [...]
Tags:
Tableau, in a bid to capture some of the visualization craze that is driving sites such as Chartle.net and Timetric, has released a public, PC only, version of its software.
Having never used Tableau before, but hearing that it’s quite powerful, I decided to check it out. Here are the results, a simple scatter plot [...]
Tags:
Visualizing Economics has been on something of a binge lately on tax related infographics. There is, of course, interesting stuff to be seen here (but perhaps not terribly new), about how the wealthiest Americans are paying out less of their income in taxes now than in years past.
Also of interest, for those [...]
Tags:
Nadex is a sort of derivatives market with a play money side. This is how the alerting mechanism works for price changes.
In an acronym: WTF?
A couple UI points:
This may seem very cool, but it’s almost impossible to tell what’s going on here. The highlighted price is almost impossible to pair [...]
Tags:
Robert Shiller has a nice op-ed piece in today’s FT about financial innovation and the complexity of financial products. It is often assumed that financial products are overly complex (and indeed many are), and that financial innovation gives rise to yet more complexity. Yet, Shiller contends, why is this a problem.
New [...]
Tags:
… or send it to outer space, as the case may be.
I came across this — Stoc — in the blogosphere (thanks info aesthetics). It’s a stock universe, where different sizes and speeds of the stars (or planets?) correspond to certain market characteristics, such as volatility and market cap. It is, in short, [...]
Tags:
If data visualization has given rise to chart porn, Zignals, a data centric investing website, has taken it to a whole new level with their chart gallery.
With Cooliris style navigation and a modicum of filtering, one can ogle at a wall of user generated, annotated stock charts. Who cares about content, structure and use, [...]
Tags:
Loading ...