seancarmody
Shout outs to seancarmody
Interesting data on your blog Sean. I love the name! 29 days ago
Hey Sean. I enjoyed reading your blog post on the shrinking banks. Just wanted to say hi and see how you're doing. :) 5 months ago
thanks for uploading all the great data! :) 10 months ago
Thanks for joining the Swivel Data Team! 10 months ago
Welcome to Swivel! 11 months ago
About Me
The Stubborn Mule
My blog is A Stubborn Mule's Perspective and it looks at economic, music, mathematics or whatever else occupies my mind as I write. To contact me, drop something in the shout-out box on the left-hand side of this page or send a note to @seancarmody on twitter. Favourite Charts
It can be a bit tricky to keep track of charts here on Swivel, so I am tagging my charts over on delicious. Here are some of the best ones. Amazing Shrinking Banks - see blog post
My blog is A Stubborn Mule's Perspective and it looks at economic, music, mathematics or whatever else occupies my mind as I write. To contact me, drop something in the shout-out box on the left-hand side of this page or send a note to @seancarmody on twitter. Favourite Charts
It can be a bit tricky to keep track of charts here on Swivel, so I am tagging my charts over on delicious. Here are some of the best ones. Amazing Shrinking Banks - see blog post
- Some Shrinking Banks - plot of market cap. for a selected few banks.
- Average Australian Grocery Basket Price by Region: This shows the average price of the various different grocery baskets used on the GroceryChoice web-site, broken down by region. The list is sorted by the average price of the baskets at Woolworths (highest down to lowest).
- Average Australian Grocery Baskets by Retailer: this chart uses the same data and looks at the average price around the country of each of the different GroceryChoice baskets.
- Australian "Basic Staples" by Region: The "Basic Staples" basket includes a variety of products from each of the other grocery baskets. It is the only basket that has an ALDI supermarket price.
- Australian "Basic Staples" by Retailer: This chart shows the average price around Australia of the Basic Staples basket.
- Beijing 2008 Paralympics: Medal Count by Country: I started this chart following the popularity of the Olympics charts below.
- Beijing 2008 Paralympics: Medal Score by Country: This chart gives the medal results in terms of "score": 3 points for Gold, 2 for Silver, 1 for bronze.
- Beijing 2008 Paralympics: Medals per Capita: A look at the small countries that are doing well.
- Beijing 2008 Paralympics: Medals by GDP: A look at the countries with small economies that are doing well.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Medal Count by Country: this chart has been a runaway success in terms of visitors, thanks to Olympics fever. I am updating it regularly (not quite real time!) with the help of a little perl script that scrapes the data from the Official Olympics site.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Total Medal Count by Country: this shows the total medal count for each country.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Total Medal Count by Population: this shows the total medal count against each country's population.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Total Medal Count by GDP: this shows the total medal count against each country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in US$.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Medals per Capita Ranking: this shows the top countries by population.
- Beijing 2008 Olympics: Medals per $ GDP: this shows the total medal ranking by GDP in US$.
- Australian Album Sales: Vinyl, Cassette, and Digital: this chart shows album sales (excluding CDs) since 1998. The numbers are all very small compared to CDs, which is why CDs have been excluded. I recently blogged on the topic of declining CD sales.
Featured Graphs
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I recently wrote about the recent spate of Starbucks closures. The original chart used in the blog post was produced using R, but I later discovered Swivel and the first data set I uploaded was this Starbucks data. Here is an edited extract of the blog post. On 1 July 2008, Starbucks announced the closure of around 600 outlets in the US. More drastically, on 29 July they then announced that 61 of the 84 Australian outlets would be closing. Although the US closures represent a far smaller proportion of total outlets than here in Australia, they still represent a striking turnaround in the previously relentless growth of the coffee giant. Could this presage a significant change in the fortunes of one of the darlings of the MBA set? Or is it simply the evolution from growth to maturity? I have to thank Mike for the data in this chart, which was painstakingly extracted from the Starbucks company timeline. The 2008 figure takes into account the 616 US closures (exact figure taken from the full list of closures) and the 61 Australian closures. I should note that any new store openings in 2008 are not accounted for. |
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Soon after the Beijing 2008 Olympics commenced, I began regularly updating this Beijing 2008 Olympic Medal Count data set. The tally chart proved very popular and has seen more than 10,000 views, but then I thought I'd add another slant to the data by looking at the results in terms of the size of each country's population or economy. So, I tracked down some population data on wikipedia, correcting a few of the figures with reference to the CIA World Factbook (I'd have taken it all from there if I could work out an easy way to download all the data). I found world gross domestic product (GDP) data provided by the world bank, and uploaded the results to Swivel. Shortly afterwards, I created a second data set which included medals per million population and medals per trillion US dollars GDP. This is one of the charts based on that data set. After a bit of jostling, exchanging places with the Bahamas, Jamaica came out third in the ranking of medals per capita and second in terms of medals per trillion dollars of GDP. It would be first if Zimbabwe's economy wasn't such a basket case! So, in the adjusted Olympic medal tally, I'd nominate Jamaica as the clear winner. For more charts and more discussion, read this blog post. Note that the GDP data is in US dollars. |
Featured Data Sets
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Price comparisons for groceries in Australia. These have been scraped from the recently launched GroceryChoice web-site. |
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The growth of Starbucks over time |
Beijing Olympics
2008: Medals per m..