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The Credit Crisis Visualized

Posted on 20. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon in Features

The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. By Jonathan Jarvis.  Watch Part 2 of the video here >

The above video is a great example of using visualization to explain an incredibly complex and intimidating theme. While on the topic of the credit crisis, below are some additional examples of how visualization can be used to tell a story.

• A Year of Heavy Losses (treemap) [nytimes.com]
• The Downturn in Facts and Figures (collection) [bbc.co.uk]
• How a Market Crisis Unfolded (event timeline) [nytimes.com]
• The Finance Crisis (graphs) [nytimes.com]
• Business Knowledge Maps (network maps) [newsvisual.com]
• Crunched by the Credit Crisis (bubble graph) [portfolio.com]
• The New Global Wealth Machine (relational chart) [blogs.nytimes.com]
• Headlines as Tag Cloud [Wordnews]
• Map of the Market (blood red treemap) [smartmoney.com]
• History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts (bubble graph) [propublica.org]

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Tags: Chart, Credit Crisis, Facts, Figures, Graph, Storytelling, Video, Visualization