Through twitter, Antonio Rinaldi sent the following chart that accompanied a New York Times piece talking about the CPI (inflation index). The article concerns a very important topic--that many middle- to lower-income households have barely any saving after spending on...
I will be at HEC Montréal Monday morning and Tuesday, for the Mathematical Finance Days. I will give a talk on Quantiles Estimation from Heavy Tailed Distribution, based on some joint work with Emmanuel Flachaire. I will upload the slides soon̷...
On the sister blog, I wrote about a new report on the music industry lamenting that the hype over "Long Tail" retail has not really helped small artists (as a group). This was a tip sent by reader Patrick S....
A twitter follower @mdjoner felt that something is amiss with the squares in this chart comparing real estate prices in major cities around the world. I'm not sure where the chart originally came from but there is a CNBC icon....
When you see two time series, resist the temptation to plot them as lines on the same chart. According to the Atlantic, the following dual-axis chart has been making the rounds in the investment community: (thanks to Alberto Cairo for...
In the prior post, I linked to Eric P.'s (link) vetting of the Bloomberg chart on the drop in median male income in the U.S. in the last few decades. Just as a reminder, here is the key chart: In...
Eric P. asked me to comment on his recent post via twitter. (Yes, that's another way to submit charts to me.) Overall, I love the spirit of Eric's article. He's using his numbersense, in this case by asking what the...
Back in 2007, the New York Times graphics team produced a fabulous chart explaining the rise in prices at the pump (link). Let's start with the tab labeled "Regional Price" which contains a well-executed map of the average gas prices...
Jeff, a reader of the blog, asks for comment on this blog post of his (link). The highlight of the post is this chart, which shows an uneven distribution. The message of the chart is that a large amount of...
The financial media, ranging from Wall Street Journal to Zero Hedge, blogged about the geographical distribution of U.S. millionaires. The stories came with a map, and in the case of the latter, two data tables ranked by ascending and descending...
