10/16/20
A welcome and some information about this site.
Welcome to mccormick-charts.com. My name is Jim McCormick. I am the founder and creator of this website. I will be announcing and commenting on site content via a stream of blog posts on the website. The information below, which is also available on the Site Info page, briefly describes the features of this website, gives some information about me, and makes it clear that the content of this website is intended to be freely available for people to use mostly as they please. Welcome again, and I hope that this site will become a useful resource to you and many others.
This website exists to make always up-to-date interesting charts of interesting data available to study, use, and modify. To this end, this website provides the following features:
written by the founder (Jim McCormick) with site content announcements and commentary
available on Twitter @McCormickCharts
topically organized commentary for easy reference
free to peruse, link to, or embed in your website or document
automatically updated with the latest data
organized by category
new ones added regularly
contain all the data and calculations underlying all site charts
enable anyone to modify a copy of any site chart
enable anyone to create new charts based on the provided data and calculations
organized by category
a place to respectfully discuss topics relevant to site content
My name is Jim McCormick. I am a computer engineer who worked for HP and then Intel for almost 24 years. (See my Linked In profile). This site arose as an intersection of some of my passions and interests. I am passionate about truth, and understanding good data is part of seeking truth. I am interested in and have begun exploring serverless cloud computing on Google's platform. I wrote the code that automatically updates this website's spreadsheets and charts using this platform. I am also interested in and have been exploring economics, finance, and investing for many years. The charts I will likely initially focus on will be the ones I find relevant to these topics. I am interested in many other topics as well, and I anticipate that the categories of charts on this site will grow over time.
Except for copying and publishing a significant fraction of the content provided via mccormick-charts.com, feel free to use the charts and the underlying spreadsheets in any way you like. A link back to an appropriate mccormick-charts.com source page wherever a chart or spreadsheet is used is not required but would be appreciated.