Archive for November 25th, 2010

Data visualization of the Ireland debt crisis

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Facilitated by improved data access and visualization software, infographics are today the pinnacle of the saying ‘a picture speaks a thousand words‘.

The image below is a representation of the web of debt between several key European economies, having at the center a group of countries currently called PIIGS: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.

PIIGS

Source: The New York Times, 2010

References:

New York Times (2010), Europe’s Web of Debt, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02marsh.html, accessed 24/22/2010

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