It’s hard making sense of the world in 2020. Nothing seems to be straightforward any more; nothing feels logical or coherent (and we don’t just mean the UK government’s coronavirus strategy). Everything is confusing and bewildering and disorienting and incongruous.
But that’s where data visualisation comes in. Seemingly random and unrelated bits of information can be brought together in wizardly fashion to form beautiful and eye-opening tables, charts, and images (some pretty fine specimens can be found on FT.com). And suddenly we feel we can at least somewhat get to grips with WTH is going on in this WFH-fuelled, WTAF-is-going-on-flavoured, WITP of a year.
So step forward the chart kings at the western world’s biggest bank, JPMorgan, who drew up this for Friday’s “Daily Consumer Spending Tracker” (h/t Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal for drawing our attention to this one):
Did someone have a few too many martinis on Friday’s team-catch-up Zoom call, or did someone’s three-year-old get onto the computer while Daddy was taking his sourdough out of the oven?
Also why is it that JPM is worth almost $400bn but yet it doesn’t seem to be able to afford a software programme with more than two colours in it?
Also just what exactly is going on up there?
To be fair, art is a product of its time. We had a similar monstrosity back in April when someone was trying to do something arty-charty to Covid-19 deaths. So if the aim of the math whizzes at JPM was to portray the confusion and abstruseness of 2020, well then they have done a pretty stellar job.
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