Dean (Zhuiyang) Chen

I recently completed a compilation of various economics data of the US economy from government sources such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA.gov] and the labor department [DOL.gov] for an ISSP class at my school. The data ranges from GDP [Gross Domestic Product] to corporate profits to the Gini index, from 1929 to 2006. I color coded the values according to their magnitudes relative to that of other values under the same category, it makes certain trends such as the gradual increase of the gini index very obvious.

The web table is located at http://ocirs.com/economic-data-table.php or just click on "US Econ Data" under "Resources" on the left panel. I've also included download links on that page for PDF, Excel 2003, Excel 2007 and CVS versions of the table. I'll probably also type up a key to all the variables and setup some mouse over pop ups that describe the variables next week.

I've also updated all the links on this site with permalinks which reveal much more useful information such as the page title and date in the URL instead of some useless page ID. I was really surprised by the fact that I wasn't able to find resources for setting up permalinks for custom coded blog backends like the one on this site. I'll probably post a tutorial for it this weekend or next weekend; it's less complicated than one would expect.