The USA underwent many recession periods and one of the most significant was the recession of 2009. It affected the USA’s economy and changed the future for many industries. The interactive visualization below depicts the growth of different industries pre and post-recession.
This is an excellent interactive visualization which is detailed and depicts lots of information at a first glance without overcrowding the visualization. The information is classified very well and presented via two different dimensions.
- Firstly, via the usage of colors ranging from deeper shades of green to deeper shades of red depicting the industries which have recovered and booming and the once which are declining.
- Secondly, via dividing the industries according to either lower or higher wage that particular industry generates.
The visualization automatically drills down to specific industries when one scroll down helping to understand the trends. One amazing thing is that a detailed description pops up whenever one hovers over any line graphs. This contains area graph of the average salary and also the number of jobs at any year from 2004 to 2014. By analyzing this we understand that consulting, computing, oil and gas industries have recovered and grown whereas apparel manufacturing and construction industry have greatly declined.