Data and me - 5 (Government debt)

There has been a lot of discussion lately on increasing the debt ceiling for government to borrow more money.
WP article on debt ceiling

It was time to check the government throughout the world as to how much debt each country has? A very interesting representation was the "General Government debt as a % of GDP". Once again thanks to Google public data explorer. Though the data representation is upto 2011 only but it gives an insight of the state if debt in various developed / developing countries.

Another interesting data to explore is the "Government budget balance (revenue - expenses) as % of GDP"



I let the numbers speak for themselves.

Data and me - 4

Fuel price at pump: A very interesting dataset that provides purchase price of fuel in various countries.

it does not springs surprises with Germany at the very top in the sample space. An interesting piece over here is the rising cost of fuel as evident from all the countries increasing gradient except Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Data and me - 3

Watching the stock trends with market sentiments is a very interesting way of analysing a key piece of hidden information.

One company's stock was of particular interest. Netflix (The link takes you to Google Finance). I will take snapshot from the Google finance.

This was a roller coaster of a ride. What is funny is the fact that it weathered the crisis (just held on) but fell down on a steep slope sometime in 2011.

The stock is on its way to the days of glory though but what a ride it had. Trying to figure out some of the other stocks which had this kind of ride.

Data and Me - 2

Check the graph below.



What really happened in India between 1998 and 1999? which lead to the spike we see.

The answer is National highways development project. The sad part is the momentum couldn't be maintained post 1999.

And there we almost had the world class infrastructure.

Data and me - 1

Recently I have started looking at the Data / numbers to make out some meaning out of it. I found one really good source. Google Public data. I will try to understand and give my thoughts on some of the analysis I do.

I think this is self explanatory. The lost of trust in politicians.