jamiely / sweet-vis

Visualization Hotness

Based on D3's choropleth example.

An End to the 'Golden Years': Increasing Longevity Changes the Work-leisure Equation

• Rising retirement ages
  • US - Employee Benefit Research Institute has retirement figures
  • France
  • Japan
• Life expectancy going up
• Increase in age when people can receive social welfare?
  • US, 65->70
• proportion of working men aged 65 and over (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS))

Data Sources

• http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,3746,en_2649_37411_39371887_1_1_1_37411,00.html

Does For-profit Education Make the Grade?

• 80% of job openings require degrees?
• 30% of americans are graduating from 4-yr univ
• Record levels of student debt and defaults (can we get this info somewhere?)
• (Should we include information about rising tuition costs?)
• (Can we get information on jobs numbers in education? Spending/growth, in terms of sector?)
• Total college populations? 15 to 22M
• Tuition cost v payback rate