Cool Geo-Pic: Planetary Visualization of the S&P 500

This Cool Geo-Pic blends planetary rotations to stock performance. Helps me understand why my stock portfolio went from the size of Jupiter to the mini-moon of Pluto.

STOC (Stock Ticker Orbital Comparison) data visualization from UAT Media on Vimeo.

A Story of Four Bad Bears ....

As the story goes, Goldilocks never met bears like these.... a historical comparison of four "bad bear markets"; the Dow Crash of 1929, the Oil Crisis in 1973, the Tech Crash of 2000 and the current recession.

I found this on DShort.com , there is also a great job loss comparison with four different looks at the recession from Flowing Data .

Again, the graphical display over time seem most relevant in communicating financial turmoil.

The second image is from Calculated Risk as of the February job loss numbers. One can imagine with the huge hemorrhaging of jobs in the last six months our "line" has sunk quite a bit further.