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.
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.
ReplyDeleteYes, 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.
ReplyDeleteSee chart.
That is a great graph Kim. Clearly Obama's policies have failed ;)
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