Political Calculations is officially one year old today - I thought it might be fun to mark the occasion by posting the master index to the tools created and posted here on this Scrappy Little-Read Blog(TM) since December 6, 2004. There's a bit of blurring between the various categories, but that's the nature of the math we do around these parts:
So, what does the future hold? In short, more of the same, but less often. A combination of old and new challenges and projects will be pulling me away from the daily grind of blogging and my posting will become much less frequent in the days ahead. Until then, I have a bit of a backlog that I'll be unwinding over the next two to three weeks, so it may take a while to notice things settling into their new pattern.
What can I say - the past year has been really fun! Evolving from Slimy Mollusc to Marauding Marsupial and back to where we are today in the TTLB Ecosystem. Nearly hitting 40,000 visitors in a year for a very specialized blog niche (I do believe that I still have *the* monopoly on blog-based practical math tools!) Who could ask for more? Thank you all for visiting - and come back whenever you need a tool I've developed to help solve a problem that matters to you, or to see what's new!
Welcome to the blogosphere's toolchest! Here, unlike other blogs dedicated to analyzing current events, we create easy-to-use, simple tools to do the math related to them so you can get in on the action too! If you would like to learn more about these tools, or if you would like to contribute ideas to develop for this blog, please e-mail us at:
Political Calculations' U.S. GDP Temperature Gauge provides a means to quickly evaluate the growth rate of the U.S. economy against the backdrop of how the economy has performed since 1980, with the "temperature" color spectrum ranging from a recessionary "cold" (purple) through an expansionary "hot" (red).
The GDP Temperature Gauge presents both the annualized GDP growth rate as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports for a one-quarter period and also as averaged over a two quarter period, which smooths out the volatility seen in the one-quarter data and provides a better indication of the relative strength of the U.S. economy over time.
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