Image: Job Voyager
Job Voyager is a set of interactive charts showing changing occupations reported to the US Census Bureau from 1850-2000. It was made by Jeffrey Heer of the University of California at Berkeley from data collected by the University of Minnesota's Population Center using the visualization software Flare. You can use the feature to examine the rise and fall of different occupations and gender roles in American history.
Link via Fast Company
UC-Berkley created Job Voyager using data from the Michigan IPUMS project, with influence on the design of the presentation of the data being inspired by BabyNameWizard.com. Laura Wattenberg is the author of the Baby Name Wizard guide to names (Broadway, 2005) and creator of BabyNameWizard.com. Whether or not she is the first one to use this software in such a context, I don't know. The software package is provided by Adobe. UC-Berkley also has a partner in production in Michigan Public Radio in this project.
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My apologies, anywhere you see Michigan in the above statement, insert Minnesota.
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Thanks, CommentKiller!
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Is farrier listed,Farrier?
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whitcwa, I know you weren't talking to me, but I did think of checking farrier when I first visited the site. Farrier is not listed, but it's modern-day counterpart, blacksmith is. Wagoner, wheelwright, chairman, President, and maintenance worker are not listed either. You can, however, get results for specific trades. Despite it's drawbacks in data availability, it is a fast and very neat presentation.
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And there I was thinking this post was to be about American neo-colonialism :P
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CommentKiller, a Farrier is an equine hoof specialist. Blacksmith and Farrier used to be almost synonymous, but not today.
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@whitcha -- well, a farrier is a kind of blacksmith, so I'd go with those statistics.
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