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September 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am

A Graphical View of 150 Years of American Occupations

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Job Voyager is a set of interactive charts showing changing occupations reported to the US Census Bureau from 1850-2000. It was made by Jeffrey Heer of the University of California at Berkeley from data collected by the University of Minnesota’s Population Center using the visualization software Flare. You can use the feature to examine the rise and fall of different occupations and gender roles in American history.

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Link via Fast Company

University of Minnesota’s Population Center

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