Interactive Visualization of Business Births and Deaths in the U.S. Economy using a Novel Visualization Technique Called HiFi Pie

摘要

HiFi Pie is a novel technique for interactive information visualization. To illustrate its strength, we explore historic data on new business births and deaths in the U.S. economy. As U.S. Economic Census data continually improves to track the birth and death of new businesses, one can visualize patterns of creative destruction in the U.S. economy, particularly broad historic patterns of whole-economy expansion, all aggregated from industry-level views of new business births and deaths. A novel, interactive viewer built on the visual language the common pie-chart, HiFi Pie allows economic development organizations focused on entrepreneurship, as well as economists and other policy makers, to visualize new business creation trends, including dynamics of entrepreneurial job creation and industry innovation.