Posts · Len Kiefer

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2022

2022/05/30 - Real house price plots
2022/04/04 - Mortgage rate increase
2022/01/19 - Starting off 2022 with Housing Starts Charts

2021

2021/11/08 - Outstanding mortgage rates
2021/11/04 - Taste the painbow
2021/10/11 - House price deceleration
2021/10/06 - Presentation on recent housing market dynamics
2021/09/23 - Housing starts chart with special ggfx
2021/08/09 - Visualizing Economic and Financial Market Trends in Volatile Times
2021/06/16 - Rose chart in R
2021/06/08 - Are we still in recession?
2021/03/17 - Watch your charts glow up with R and ggfx
2021/03/05 - Using ggfx for good
2021/02/26 - Data visualization guidelines and a case study
2021/02/02 - The economy and the housing market
2021/01/26 - House Prices Lift Off

2020

2020/12/17 - Seasonally adjusted greetings and low low mortgage rates
2020/12/15 - Talking Dataviz
2020/11/30 - Visual Meditations on House Prices 2020 Edition
2020/11/23 - New Research Paper Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Case of Savings from Mortgage Refinancing
2020/11/20 - y-axis on the right side
2020/10/30 - Powder blue charts
2020/10/29 - October 2020 US housing and mortgage market outlook
2020/10/27 - US house prices accelerate
2020/10/23 - Chart Style 1979
2020/10/22 - Text mining the 2020 Fed Beige Book
2020/10/12 - Mortgage rate skyline chart
2020/10/10 - Housing makes up for a lost spring
2020/10/06 - Forecasting house prices with Quantile AutoRegression (QAR)
2020/09/22 - dcasting a data table
2020/07/03 - Using darklyplot
2020/07/02 - A new R package darklyplot
2020/06/25 - Gradient shading with ggplot2
2020/06/16 - The Coronavirus Recession
2020/06/06 - Presentation Quadfecta and Jobs Friday June 2020
2020/05/22 - State unemployment rate dataviz
2020/05/14 - Tornado Charts
2020/05/07 - May Economic and Housing Market Update
2020/04/30 - Mortgage rates hit a record low
2020/04/23 - Last Summer This Spring
2020/04/20 - Updated Favorite Data Visualizations
2020/04/20 - The US economy in lockdown
2020/04/03 - US Labor Market Update
2020/03/26 - 30 sigma
2020/03/07 - Map of maps
2020/02/29 - Location Quotient Map
2020/02/25 - Housing Response to a Consumer Sentiment Shock
2020/02/17 - Forecasting with logs
2020/02/08 - Killing it while shilling it
2020/01/20 - Phoning it in with R
2020/01/07 - Double Trouble Hazard of Dual Axis Charts

2019

2019/12/17 - Shady housing market chart
2019/12/09 - Write Anything
2019/11/02 - Lower Mortgage Rates Bolster the Housing Market
2019/10/24 - Forecasts from a bivariate VECM conditional on one of the variables
2019/10/10 - Visualizing consumer price inflation and mortgage rates
2019/10/08 - Tiny R Code for Smoothing Data
2019/10/08 - E-Poster using Flexdashboards and SlickR
2019/10/06 - ARIMA for Ernie
2019/09/23 - Theme Inari
2019/09/04 - Found in Translation: Please do not anything
2019/08/07 - Crazy Yield Curve Charts
2019/07/24 - Housing usually heats up in summer
2019/07/18 - Me and the bears
2019/07/13 - Real House Price Trends
2019/07/09 - EPOP becomes Fedspeak
2019/06/16 - Charting the housing expansion with R
2019/05/22 - Presentation: The dynamics of house prices and foreclosure rates across space and time
2019/05/14 - What Happens in Vegas Doesn't Always Stay in Vegas
2019/05/05 - Population Growth and House Prices 2010 to 2018
2019/04/11 - Is the U.S. housing recovery over? Housing fluctuations across time and frequencies
2019/03/26 - Housing construction and population growth
2019/03/03 - Mortgage rates and housing construction
2019/02/25 - Vulnerable Economy Plots
2019/02/06 - Animated Labor Force Participation Chart
2019/01/28 - Running Python from R with Reticulate
2019/01/16 - Masters in Business
2019/01/15 - Rstudioconf Poster
2019/01/13 - Go Go Animate!

2018

2018/12/19 - Forecasting is still hard
2018/12/12 - Vulnerable Housing
2018/11/29 - Housing Market Outlook
2018/11/20 - Housing Starts Stall
2018/10/09 - A Flatter Phillips Curve
2018/10/07 - U.S. housing supply and demand
2018/09/11 - JOLTS update
2018/08/20 - Facets in space and time
2018/08/16 - Everything is spiraling out of control!
2018/08/11 - Core Inflation Viz with Progress Bar
2018/08/07 - State employment dataviz
2018/08/05 - Charts within charts
2018/08/02 - Global house price trends
2018/07/31 - House price gif that keeps on giffing
2018/07/29 - Beige-ian Statistics
2018/07/28 - Text Mining Fedspeak
2018/07/26 - Getting animated about new home sales
2018/07/22 - House price gifski
2018/07/21 - Maybe the Linear Probability Model isn't all bad
2018/07/21 - Connected scatterplot
2018/07/18 - U.S. housing starts are still super low
2018/07/17 - How bad is a Linear Probability Model?
2018/07/14 - New Blog Style!
2018/07/14 - Housing in the Golden State
2018/07/07 - Mortgage rates in the 21st century
2018/07/01 - Exploring housing data with R and IPUMS USA
2018/06/24 - Plotting house price and income trends
2018/06/10 - Kalman Filter for a dynamic linear model in R
2018/05/21 - Pomological Plots
2018/05/08 - Spotlight on housing affordability
2018/05/04 - Jobs Friday May 2018
2018/05/02 - What's up? VSUP, that's what's up.
2018/04/26 - Expanding Expansions, Contracting Recessions
2018/04/23 - April 2018 Housing Market Update
2018/04/12 - Rate Cloud
2018/03/18 - Pipe Tweenr
2018/03/12 - Forecasting Game
2018/03/11 - Charting Jobs Friday with R
2018/03/05 - Forecasting and deciding binary outcomes under asymmetric information
2018/03/03 - Rock that dadbod plot!
2018/02/26 - Employment growth and house price trends
2018/02/19 - More house price plots
2018/02/18 - Recent House Price Trends: update through December 2017
2018/02/07 - February 2018 housing market update
2018/02/05 - Comparing recent periods of mortgage rate increases
2018/01/23 - Me on a podcast
2018/01/17 - Simple animated line plot with R

2017

2017/12/20 - State population growth and house prices
2017/12/11 - Plotting U.S. Macroeconomic Trends with FRED and R
2017/11/28 - Housing construction and employment trends
2017/11/22 - Housing market dataviz: week of November 22, 2017
2017/11/16 - Majestic mortgage rate plot
2017/11/08 - Tour of U.S. metro area house price trends
2017/11/07 - JOLTS a dataviz trilogy
2017/11/06 - A note on competing risks
2017/11/05 - Recent trends in U.S. housing markets: 2017Q3 update
2017/10/30 - Dynamic Model Averaging Presentation Slides
2017/10/28 - A closer look at forecasting recessions with dynamic model averaging
2017/10/26 - Forecasting recessions with dynamic model averaging
2017/10/25 - Home sales in expansions and recessions
2017/10/23 - Sharing is caring
2017/10/22 - Combining PowerPoint and R's tweenr for smooth animations
2017/10/21 - Purrrtier PowerPoint with R
2017/10/19 - Mortgage rates are low!
2017/10/17 - Time to animate with tibbletime
2017/10/15 - Unemployment Flexdashboard
2017/10/11 - Bivariate tilegridmaps with R
2017/10/10 - quick geofacet plots
2017/10/09 - What time is it? Time for tibbletime!
2017/10/08 - Analyzing mortgage data with R
2017/10/05 - Mortgage loan size distributions
2017/10/05 - Arizona housing market trends
2017/10/03 - ggplot as it was meant to be
2017/09/29 - Mortgage origination trends
2017/09/27 - PURRRty PowerPoint with R
2017/09/26 - New home sales fall (maybe)
2017/09/25 - Charting housing starts with R
2017/09/23 - Crafting a PowerPoint Presentation with R
2017/09/21 - Housing market update September 2017
2017/09/19 - Housing starts grinding higher or grinding to a halt?
2017/09/18 - A (Tidyquant)um of solace
2017/09/17 - If housing inventory is so tight, why are so many homes vacant?
2017/09/16 - Hello Hugo! Hello Blogdown!
2017/08/29 - Low-key dataviz
2017/08/27 - Forecasting is hard (work)-bonus charts
2017/08/27 - Forecasting is hard (work)
2017/08/22 - Visualizing house price acceleration
2017/08/13 - The 100 second crisis: Fear, public speaking, and what I do about it
2017/08/10 - Adding an animation progress bar
2017/08/07 - Plotting recent house price trends with R
2017/08/03 - Joyswarm: Joyplot + beeswarm = awesome
2017/07/27 - Mortgage Rate Kandinsky
2017/07/26 - Joyful dataviz
2017/06/20 - More on housing affordability
2017/06/19 - Housing affordability trends
2017/06/05 - Housing supply, population, and house prices: Tableau Dashboard
2017/05/28 - Housing supply, population, and house prices: The macro view
2017/05/25 - Housing market recap
2017/05/23 - Index starting points and dataviz
2017/05/22 - Facet my geo!
2017/05/21 - Consumer prices, household debt
2017/05/18 - State house price growth trends: animated ribbon dataviz
2017/05/03 - House price growth and employment trends
2017/05/02 - House price visualizations
2017/04/26 - Visualizing uncertainty in housing data
2017/04/25 - Animate a bivariate choropleth
2017/04/24 - Bivariate choropleth maps with R
2017/04/23 - What's that on the horizon? An awesome dataviz!
2017/04/22 - Treemapify those pies!
2017/04/20 - Gather round and spread the word: Wrangling global house price data
2017/04/18 - Housing gets off to a good start
2017/04/17 - Let's Pixelate America
2017/04/16 - Of kernels and beeswarms: Comparing the distribution of house values to household income
2017/04/14 - Mortgage rates after dark
2017/04/11 - Plotting house price trends with FRED and R
2017/03/30 - QR code or dataviz?
2017/03/29 - Resampling
2017/02/20 - A grand tour of house price trends
2017/02/19 - Recent trends in house prices
2017/02/11 - Experimenting with expanding axes
2017/02/09 - House prices are highest in coastal metros
2017/02/07 - Description and presentation, exploration and analysis
2017/02/06 - Ticks out!
2017/02/04 - Hello Ninja! Crafting a browser-based presentation and how I got (re)started with R
2017/02/01 - Wrangling employment data, plotting trends
2017/01/31 - Visualizing housing value distributions by metro
2017/01/30 - Best year for home sales in a decade
2017/01/29 - Fun with Plotly
2017/01/28 - GDP Growth Chart (animated)
2017/01/26 - Converting a Tableau dashboard to a Flexdashboard
2017/01/22 - A guide to building an interactive flexdashboard
2017/01/20 - Flexin' Friday
2017/01/18 - Working on a Workout
2017/01/16 - That's what I'm (cross)talking about!
2017/01/14 - Housing's best year in a decade, remix
2017/01/08 - Mortgage rate flexdashboard

2016

2016/12/31 - A look back at housing's best year in a decade
2016/12/27 - Data tables are Viz too
2016/12/23 - Populous metros are heavy!
2016/12/19 - Simple tweenr animations with ggplot2
2016/12/18 - Even more mortgage rate visualizations
2016/12/17 - See Data, Speak Data Part 1: But I've go so much to say!
2016/12/15 - More amazing ways to visualize mortgage rates
2016/12/14 - Let's fix a dot plot
2016/12/12 - Ribbon rate chart
2016/12/10 - Global house price trends
2016/12/08 - 10 ways to visualize mortgage rates
2016/12/04 - Nested recursion: Loops within loops within data frames
2016/12/03 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 7: Don't cross the streams!
2016/11/30 - Comparing house prices, rents, other prices and incomes
2016/11/21 - Visualizing recent trends in consumer prices
2016/11/03 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 6: state recovery
2016/10/20 - Visualizing the history of U.S. homeownership rates
2016/10/14 - Some animated gifs: Week of Oct 14, 2016
2016/10/11 - Distribution of mortgage loan amounts in 2015
2016/09/22 - Data visualizations for the week of September 22, 2016
2016/09/14 - Industry-specific Beveridge Curves
2016/09/10 - JOLTS! Job openings and labor turnover trends
2016/09/02 - What we spend: Consumer Expenditures in 2015
2016/08/27 - Recent economic and housing market trends: August 2016
2016/08/26 - Density squared
2016/08/24 - More map visualizations
2016/08/23 - U.S. county population: 1790-2010
2016/08/21 - Maps, mortgages and me
2016/08/19 - Mortgage rate gifs: Week of Aug 19, 2016
2016/08/18 - Data swarms: Your firearms are useless against them!
2016/08/15 - Consumer Credit Trends Part 2: Data doesn't drive, it's lucky to be in the car
2016/08/13 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 5: distributions
2016/08/09 - Consumer Credit Trends
2016/07/01 - Going off the grid
2016/06/26 - Brexit, State of the Nation's Housing, and home sales: the week in charts.
2016/06/22 - Let's make a dot plot
2016/06/09 - Dataviz Remix: Housing Trilemma
2016/06/06 - Visualizing the U.S. housing stock
2016/05/30 - More tweenr animation examples
2016/05/29 - Improving R animated GIFs with tweenr
2016/05/22 - Population growth, housing supply, and house prices
2016/05/19 - Mortgage rates and the Fed Funds rate
2016/05/15 - Mortgage rates, some perspective
2016/05/14 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 4: graph gallery
2016/05/10 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 3: bubbles and bounce
2016/05/08 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 2: sparklines and dots (animated)
2016/05/08 - Visual meditations on house prices, Part 1: data wrangling
2016/05/08 - Visual meditations on house prices
2016/05/04 - House price data viz
2016/05/01 - Annotated chartbook, Tufte style
2016/04/30 - Vacant housing: from surplus to shortage
2016/04/23 - The week that was in charts
2016/04/14 - Data Viz: Occupation Wages and Regional Cost of Living
2016/04/06 - dot plots and distributions
2016/03/30 - Real house prices and population growth
2016/03/24 - Tight Inventory: Data Viz Remixed
2016/03/22 - The week (so far) in charts
2016/03/19 - The week that was in charts
2016/03/05 - What the February jobs numbers mean for housing
2016/02/28 - Recent House Price Trends

2015

2015/08/29 - Annotated Data Viz 2
2015/08/23 - Annotated Data Viz 1

0001

0001/01/01 - The week ahead: housing starts and housing market index
0001/01/01 - The week (so far) in charts
0001/01/01 - How I make my mortgage rates gif