Speaking of Precision Blog

Sometimes, our eyes can help us see what is really going on, no matter what the talking heads in the media try to tell us.

On this first map, a satelite image of the Korean peninsula, the light indicates urban and economic activity as evidenced by electric lights in South Korea. The absence of light at the top of the peninsula indicates an apparent lack of economic and industrial activity in North Korea.

Darkness means no economic activity that can afford outside lighting.

Link: Korean Peninsula

On this map of unemployment rates by county, again darkness indicates lack of economic activity.

Darkness means county unemployment 10% or more

Here is the interactive version posted on YouTube:

Click here to see this interactive map show the growth of unemployment by county from Jan 2007 to January 2010.

Sometimes, it’s easier to just show what you mean.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 am and is filed under Break Room, Engineering, Front Office. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.