In 2009, great recession overwhelmed the United States’ economy. This data visualization clearly shows the performance (jobs number and salary number) of each industry in this ten years.
The first visualization gives a big picture of the overall domestic performance and gives the overview of the performance of every industry in the United States. It uses color to categorize how industry performs and also gives the details information of ten years performance of each industry.
- The second visualization highlights the data from the low-paying job such as fast food and high-paying job such as consulting. It finds that both sectors are growing.
- The third visualization highlights medical industry and especial those in middle-wage industries.
- The fourth visualization displays Housing industry. It is seriously suffering until now.
- The fifth visualization shows the manufacturing industry. It compares each sector with another.
- The sixth visualization shows oil industry performance. Almost all of sectors in this industry grow dramatically.
- In this ten years, we also face digital revolution. The seventh visualization compares traditional media industry with IT industry.
- Last but not least, it shows the hottest and fast growing industries’ performance in the United States.
This Visualization did a great job at grouping the data, using color to classify the performance, and arranging, for example, it put poor performance industry at the lower part. Moreover, it tries to look at the same data from different angles and makes story interesting.
Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/upshot/how-the-recession-reshaped-the-economy-in-255-charts.html?&_r=2&abt=0002&abg=0