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Slate has taken the Local Area Unemployment Statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to create an information visualization showing the jobs lost over the past two years. Blue circles indicate that jobs were gained. Red circles indicate that jobs were lost. The size of the circle indicates the magnitude of change. The visualization is interactive. It allows you to either play through the timeline, or you can click on a certain month to see the data. The problem with such visualizations is that entire states disappear from view under the data. I personally prefer the way Flowing Data used the counties in their visualization instead of using circles. Unfortunately, Flowing Data’s visualization is not interactive like Slate’s.

via Slate: When Did Your County’s Jobs Disappear?

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The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released the most recent unemployment figures, and Nathan of FlowingData compiled the last 6 years into a great collection of graphs that are rather poetically described by his younger sister.

I showed my younger sister the maps. Her response: “It looks like the country is bleeding.”

While the recession is “over” the unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in September from 9.7% in August. That’s 214,000 more people who are jobless in the United States. The last time unemployment was this high was back in June 1983 when it was 10.1%.

See the full resolution maps at his site.

via Unemployment, 2004 to Present – The Country is Bleeding | FlowingData.

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Over at FlowingData, NathanYau has compiled a nice infographic show life expectancy at birth for all 50 states in the US, as well as categorized by gender, race, and other factors.

Live in Hawaii and you just might live a little longer.

Hawaii has an average life expectancy at birth of 80.0 years. It’s 72.0 years in Washington, D.C., the lowest life expectancy in the country.

via How Long People Live in America | FlowingData.

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