st: Graph with an additional feature/dimension

["Patrick J. Flaherty" <repho@pipeline.com>]

The Wall Street Journal published this graph on Saturday and I am trying to 
replicate it with my Connecticut data.

http://bit.ly/wsjjobs2012

I am able to get the bars to be different colors based on value by creating 
one data series for positive numbers and another for negative values (for 
each industry, each year has either a positive value and a missing negative 
value, or a missing positive value and a negative value).  This isn't hard 
to do but perhaps there is a more elegant solution.

Where I am stumped is the quarter circle on the bottom right of each graph 
sized according to the level of employment in the industry.  Obviously it 
would be easy to create a pie chart showing the proportions of employment by 
industry and then the set of bar charts showing annual growth, but, in my 
view, it looks nice having all that information in one display.

Patrick J. Flaherty
Economist
Office of Research
Connecticut Department of Labor
200 Folly Brook Boulevard
Wethersfield, CT 06109-1114

phone: 860-263-6281
FAX: 860-263-6263



Patrick J. Flaherty
Coventry, Connecticut

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