Policy by the Numbers: Visualize the world’s economic recovery and win $2,000

Visualize the world’s economic recovery and win $2,000

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The summer before I started looking for jobs, Bear Stearns collapsed. What my classmates and I had thought would be a challenging task turned into a near-impossible one. For most of us, this economic recession has hit home in one way or another as jobless rates reached 9.6% in both the U.S. and the E.U. in 2010—the highest they’ve been in almost 30 years. If faulty numbers caused the housing bubble that dragged us down, we need to start crunching real numbers to figure out how to get us out of this slump.

We’ve teamed up with the Guardian Datastore to launch a competition to find the best visualization of public data sets and figure out which government policies are reversing the trend. Using information from the World Economic Forum, World Bank, UN, World Trade Organisation, IMF and some of the world's major economic experts, we want you to make an argument about how to generate sustainable growth in the 21st century.

Finding solutions to these problems is critical to the future of our society and economy. To debate the issues that surface in the visualizations, we’ll be co-hosting public conversations via Google+ hangouts that are anchored in hard numbers. Stay tuned to this blog or the Guardian Datastore for details.

The competition is open to U.K. and U.S. citizens with a prize of $2,000 going to the most compelling, beautiful and informed visualization. Entries are due by May 21 and results will be published on the Guardian Datastore’s new site, Show and Tell.

A new economic reality is setting in, and if we are going to master it, we need citizens and leaders alike to invest in figuring out how to adapt. Check out the data from our list or bring your own as long as it’s free and available to the public -- and let us know what you think by submitting an entry to datavisualisation@guardian.co.uk!

posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst at Google

Policy by the Numbers

Visualize the world’s economic recovery and win $2,000

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