Visualizing How News Media Is Describing Ihe Incident At The US Capitol
Visualizing How News Media Is Describing Ihe Incident At The US Capitol Was it a riot? An insurrection? Or was it simply a protest? The January 6, 2021 incident at the U.S. Capitol was widely covered in news media – however, as Visual Capitalist’s Govind Bhurada notes, the type of language used to describe it…
Visualizing The US Population By Race
The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures – and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, Visual Capitalist’s Iman Ghosh uses data for 2019 from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which bases its analysis on the latest American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Then we break…
Visualizing 2020's Endless News Cycle
If 2020 seems like a blur, it was. Amid the backdrop of a global pandemic, ensuing lockdowns, and an election year, dozens of competing narratives overlapped to provide nothing short of information overload. To help visualize this roller coaster, Axios is out with their fourth annual Google Trends chart. “We have never seen a year…
High Wage Vs. Low Wage: Visualizing America's K-Shaped Economic 'Recovery'
While it’s not uncommon for low wage workers to bear the brunt of an economic recession, this year’s economic collapse has been exceptionally brutal for America’s lower income employees. Employment rates for high wage workers have bounced back from their spring slump, but, as Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang points out, unfortunately, the recovery hasn’t been as…
A Very COVID Christmas: Visualizing The Pandemic’s Impact On Festive Spending
By Tyler Durden From mass job losses to not seeing family and friends for months on end, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed people to their limits in 2020. As an incredibly difficult year draws to a close, Visual Capitalist’s Katie Jones notes that people are starting to accept that this festive season will be anything…
A Very COVID Christmas: Visualizing The Pandemic's Impact On Festive Spending
From mass job losses to not seeing family and friends for months on end, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed people to their limits in 2020. As an incredibly difficult year draws to a close, Visual Capitalist’s Katie Jones notes that people are starting to accept that this festive season will be anything but typical. But…
Visualizing 50 Years Of Gaming History, By Revenue Stream (1970-2020)
Every year it feels like the gaming industry sees the same stories—record sales, unfathomable market reach, and questions of how much higher the market can go. We’re already far past the point of gaming being the biggest earning media sector, with an estimated $165 billion revenue generated in 2020. But as Visual Capitalist’s Omri Wallach illustrates in the…
A Tale Of Two Markets: Visualizing The Huge Impact Of The Covid Vaccine Across Assets
The story of the market since the March lows has been one of two parts, the first of massive FAAMG/tech/growth/momentum outperformance, and a second one in which value and cyclicals was burst higher; the only question is where does one put the bifurcation point. According to one strategist, Deutsche Bank’s FX strategist Alan Riskin, that…
Visualizing The Top 100 US Colleges, Ranked By Tuition
Attending a good school in the U.S. comes at a price. Since 1985, college tuition has risen by roughly 500%, vastly outpacing almost all other increases in the cost of living. Today, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley explains, there are more than 4,000 colleges in the country, ranging from high-flying Ivy League institutions to more modest,…