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How we spend our time [interactive visualization on nytimes]

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I stumbled on this today... http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html


seems very interesting and cool. What do you think about this ?
 
This is a great way to show the contributions to a whole in a time series. I made a similar, static graph for the business that was well received. The interactive feature in the NYT version is neat, something I might try out in Excel.
 
I really loved this visualization so much that I ended up downloading the original data of ATUS thinking I can recreate this in Excel. But the data is too huge and I am not planning to spend more than an hour or two on this experiment. May be during a weekend.


For the curious.. here are some links..


the ATUS data source and tables: http://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles_2008.htm

Junk charts talks about this too... http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2009/08/degrees-of-likeness.html
 
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