[yan]

Fantastic question that I've been musing over myself recently.

I've not understood anything specific that led to this (as far as my tired mind remembers), but my hunger for some specific statistics grew. For instance: Partitions of US workforce into industry, median wage, median age, geographical locations, etc. Trying to see the overhead in society. Sources of political contributions. Wealth division. Each industry's contribution to: GDP, pollution, natural resources, workforce, etc.

My long-running goal has been to create visualizations that sum up a lot of these big questions. I'd love to work with others if they share similar goals.

edit; forgot to mention: I've been craving to find out topics known inside industries but covered to the general public. I.e. how record labels work, how industries deal with non-compete agreements and collusion, what financial institutions do that should be illegal but isn't, details of HFT, agriculture subsidies, barriers of entry to large industries, etc and etc. (I have a feeling I'll be editing this a lot)