Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
You Too Can Blog Like Paul Krugman
Ever wonder where Krugman gets all the graphs he posts from? The answer seems to be St. Louis Fed: FRED Graph where you too can create graphs of tons of economic data.
Update: Krugman lists some more sources: Data Notes
Awesome link. Now we have to get started picking out interesting data and graphing it and coming up with a powerful, conventional wisdom busting insight based on the data.
Yes, super link. I went on and created a simple graph on duration of unemployment in less than a minute. I was surprised to see that 2010 has seen an unprecedented (back to 1950) high in unemployment duration. See chart.
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Awesome link. Now we have to get started picking out interesting data and graphing it and coming up with a powerful, conventional wisdom busting insight based on the data.
Yes, super link. I went on and created a simple graph on duration of unemployment in less than a minute. I was surprised to see that 2010 has seen an unprecedented (back to 1950) high in unemployment duration.
See chart.
That is a great graph Kim. Clearly Obama's policies have failed ;)
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