1929:The Great Crash - on BBC2 tonight

rabbit8587

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought the point of being a student was to be able to research :P

Here's what I found in under 1 minute for the US:
http://www.quartzcity.net/2006/08/29/100-years-of-housing-prices/

The data's out there....

Here's directly to the picture:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27leon_graph2.large.gif

Thanks I'm really grateful for that! I am obviously a rubbish student i searched any number of terms on google n google scholar and didnt get any hard figures or anything. Going very wrong somewhere! Thank you for proving the data is out there

Trollfever

History has a habit of repeating itself.

The sheeple don't do history.

PasturesNew

rabbit8587 wrote: »

Thanks I'm really grateful for that! I am obviously a rubbish student i searched any number of terms on google n google scholar and didnt get any hard figures or anything. Going very wrong somewhere! Thank you for proving the data is out there

If you word specific, concise specs for the data you want, I'm sure between everybody here we can pull it all out of the magical Internet for you.

I could have overloaded you with links, data, graphs, charts, spreadsheets ... but just did one to say "hey, there's stuff ... and it can be found"

We need productive things to do, especially on a Saturday night when we don't have a date.

PasturesNew

Trollfever wrote: »

The sheeple don't do history.

Nor, apparently, do: the Government, Government advisors, experts, professionals, analysts, the over-educated, the informed, the invested.

rabbit8587

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you word specific, concise specs for the data you want, I'm sure between everybody here we can pull it all out of the magical Internet for you.

I could have overloaded you with links, data, graphs, charts, spreadsheets ... but just did one to say "hey, there's stuff ... and it can be found"

We need productive things to do, especially on a Saturday night when we don't have a date.

I can't talk, I'm a student trying to research my dissertation (poorly) at quarter to midnight :rolleyes:. I'm sure I should be out drunk somewhere but hey.

I am looking for either house prices or percentage change in house prices for the USA between 1920 and 1929. (This could be for the UK rather than USA if this gives more choice). When I get these figures I will be comparing them to the changes in house prices since approx 2003 and producing graphs etc to see if we are following the same pattern now as we did in the 20s before the great crash.

Is that clear or am i blabbing on a bit?

mvengemvenge

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you word specific, concise specs for the data you want, I'm sure between everybody here we can pull it all out of the magical Internet for you.

I could have overloaded you with links, data, graphs, charts, spreadsheets ... but just did one to say "hey, there's stuff ... and it can be found"

We need productive things to do, especially on a Saturday night when we don't have a date.

Some people don't know about using speech marks on google and the difference it makes to searches...

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought the point of being a student was to be able to research :P

Here's what I found in under 1 minute for the US:
http://www.quartzcity.net/2006/08/29/100-years-of-housing-prices/

The data's out there....

Here's directly to the picture:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27leon_graph2.large.gif

Why do these charts never start at zero? wouldn't be trying to distort the facts by any chance. Why can't we have a world where information is provided to inform instead of manipulate?

StevieJ

Trollfever wrote: »

History has a habit of repeating itself.

The sheeple don't do history.

Care to provide some examples?

PasturesNew

mvengemvenge wrote: »

Some people don't know about using speech marks on google and the difference it makes to searches...

Yes, but these "some people" is a degree student at the dissertation stage, fully versed in researching their subject, born into a world of computers and the Internet.

-v- me, left school with two O levels.

This "some people" will shortly outrank me in 1,000s of jobs because they have a degree. Even a researcher job where the job spec says "must be IT literate and be able to use search engines".

m1ntie

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, but these "some people" is a degree student at the dissertation stage, fully versed in researching their subject, born into a world of computers and the Internet.

-v- me, left school with two O levels.

This "some people" will shortly outrank me in 1,000s of jobs because they have a degree. Even a researcher job where the job spec says "must be IT literate and be able to use search engines".

Excellent!