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1. Re: Comparing wages, producitivity and chart types
Jonathan DrummeyFeb 2, 2012 12:43 AM (in response to Daniel Hom)
Nice viz!
I was confused at first because it wasn't immediately clear that the % change was in relation to, I'd suggest adding a "since 1949" somewhere at the top. Also, to tie the slider into the graph, I also suggest adding a reference line for the currently selected date.
Beefing up the tooltips could also help interactivity, e.g. having productivity, average wages, and gap for each. Some of this need for me comes from the fact that the viz as shown here in the forum is too wide for the box is displayed in - I've attached a screen shot.
One thing neither graphic explains is what "productivity" is. Is it a measure of productivity/worker? Productivity of the economy as a whole?
As for the "why", there are really two questions, one is why productivity went up, and why wages (on the whole) have slightly decreased since 1971. On the productivity side, there's the use of IT, organizations getting smarter about allocation of resources (supply chain management, etc.), and probably lots more I don't know about. On the wages side, I think graphs like this end up hiding some interesting details that can be easy to add with Tableau. For example, additional layers showing the gains over time of the "1%", or maybe corporate CEO pay as a multiple of the average worker, etc. would be interesting, since those show big increases as well.
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2. Re: Comparing wages, producitivity and chart types
Alex.Morrison Feb 2, 2012 10:26 AM (in response to Jonathan Drummey) -
3. Re: Comparing wages, producitivity and chart types
Jonathan DrummeyFeb 2, 2012 12:46 PM (in response to Alex.Morrison)
Thanks! I'm so used to "attach" instead of "insert" as a ui metaphor I didn't pay attention to the camera icon.
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4. Re: Comparing wages, producitivity and chart types
Daniel HomFeb 2, 2012 1:03 PM (in response to Jonathan Drummey)
Good points Jonathan. Unfortunately that's the size of the viz the author originally created it as--didn't want to resize it for this post just so we'd have the entire original view.
I also wonder how easy it would be to get data on subsets of the population like you suggested. That would make the viz that much better--if we could get data. Oh how many times that 'if' comes along...
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5. Re: Comparing wages, producitivity and chart types
Alex.Morrison Feb 2, 2012 1:14 PM (in response to Daniel Hom)