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leave a commentVery good looking. Can y’all cite some sources?
Could you please site your source of information?
Our bad. We have added the source to the map.
I need a job, since i have been unemployeed, i have been sitting around playing arcade games at http://www.mywebcade.com
Fayetteville is in ARKANSAS!
I like your site and it’s look and feel. The questions with regard to citing resources to validate your interactive map, even though you provide the name of one resource, is still valid. The reason I state this is because: (1) The article makes a claim that “you might have to seriously consider relocating in order to find work,” and as such, thanks to your handy interactive map, hundreds of people just might be out there contemplating a move from Los Angeles to Minnesota because the situation at least here in Los Angeles is just that critical; and (2) NPA Data Services, Inc. your resource, states that the “company specializes in developing and maintaining geographic county, metropolitan statistical area, state, economic area, region, and the U.S. databases containing consistent historical data and projections of detailed economic, demographic, and construction/real estate information.” With the knowledge that they have been providing local governments all across the country with statistical economic and demographic projections for the past 25 years and the current state of our economy today, I would fear using any of their information as factual or even statistically correct. Instead, I would find another resource, or if they were just that cheap, increased E&O coverage! By the way – NPA’s website doesn’t look very professional, quite possibly an indication as to what type of information they provide?
I’m going to make up a “infographic” and give no reasons for the info.
If called a “infographic” it must be true info!
I usually enjoy your infographics, but this one is very confusing. There’s no explanation about the data (as others have mentioned), and I can’t even figure out what is meant by the cities that are marked with dots on the map. They don’t correlate to the cities in the bar graph at lower left, so I have no idea what they really indicate or how the two groups relate to each other. Pretty, but needs a little more work in order to be useful!
As others have stated, this map is very confusing. The rollovers don’t seem related to the bar graphs. San Diego has no correlating bar graph with it, and where are the sources?
Wow…. A big FAIL
I agree its very confusing and without cited sources I question authenticity of the data. NY shows only 5% growth which I find hard to believe. As the biggest city in USA we have presence by all major corporations. Most financial institutions have their biggest offices in NYC and as the economy improves they will be hiring a lot more people. Another thing which I think makes this infographic stupid is that by 2030 (20 years from now) a lot of people will already be at least 1/2 into their career. If you make something you should make it with the forecast for the next few years and not so much into the future.
So … trying to send all the fools to TX and FL? Good play! Anyone stupid enough to move South to a tornado zone or flood-prone area is welcome to go, especially when > 2015 or so there won’t be any water left in Las Vegas, Phoenix or most of Texas.
We’re headed for the heartland, north-central, Rockies, maybe Canada (except that strip-mine they call Alberta). Snow melt, timber and some hunting if needed will get us through. Just be careful when you ring my bell!