Comments on: “Spending Time”: Visualize Your Finances http://blog.findabetterbank.com/spending-time-visualize-your-finances/ Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:21:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://blog.findabetterbank.com/spending-time-visualize-your-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 Andrew Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:13:40 +0000 http://blog.findabetterbank.com/?p=517#comment-1779 Matt, yea a lot has been changing in the OMMT world, and I would like to revisit this topic. Please let me know when a new version is released. It seems like a difficult task, getting it just right, and I wouldn't pretend to think my experience is the same as everyone else's. Still, your site and others have really changed the way I think about money, and the visualizations clearly make a large impact for me. Excellent personal financial graphics will resonate with "young people," who have a well-developed knowledge of interactive graphics due to growing up in these digital times. I look forward to seeing how this all develops! Matt, yea a lot has been changing in the OMMT world, and I would like to revisit this topic. Please let me know when a new version is released.

It seems like a difficult task, getting it just right, and I wouldn’t pretend to think my experience is the same as everyone else’s. Still, your site and others have really changed the way I think about money, and the visualizations clearly make a large impact for me. Excellent personal financial graphics will resonate with “young people,” who have a well-developed knowledge of interactive graphics due to growing up in these digital times. I look forward to seeing how this all develops!

]]> By: matt @ Thrive http://blog.findabetterbank.com/spending-time-visualize-your-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 matt @ Thrive Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:53:08 +0000 http://blog.findabetterbank.com/?p=517#comment-1759 Thanks for reviewing our visuals, Andrew. It honestly isn't an area in which we've put in a ton of effort: like some of your readers' comments express, while a good visual can be great, for many people they don't seem to actually produce meaningful behavioral change. I think that may be that we (not just Thrive, but the world) don't quite have the right visual format down yet. As a behavioral psychologist, I'm actually trying to talk to some other psychologists that are working on this problem and have had some limited success, and when we've been able to come up with a better solution, than I think Thrive will be integrating it. For now, we do have a visualization pass scheduled and we will be doing more...perhaps a Round 2 will be appropriate in the future! =] Thanks for reviewing our visuals, Andrew. It honestly isn’t an area in which we’ve put in a ton of effort: like some of your readers’ comments express, while a good visual can be great, for many people they don’t seem to actually produce meaningful behavioral change.

I think that may be that we (not just Thrive, but the world) don’t quite have the right visual format down yet. As a behavioral psychologist, I’m actually trying to talk to some other psychologists that are working on this problem and have had some limited success, and when we’ve been able to come up with a better solution, than I think Thrive will be integrating it.

For now, we do have a visualization pass scheduled and we will be doing more…perhaps a Round 2 will be appropriate in the future! =]

]]> By: Andrew http://blog.findabetterbank.com/spending-time-visualize-your-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Andrew Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:54:16 +0000 http://blog.findabetterbank.com/?p=517#comment-107 Thanks, Jeffry. It still blows my mind that these sites are offering all of this personal finance data visualization to individuals for free--something that would not have been possible on such a mass scale only a decade ago. Thanks, Jeffry. It still blows my mind that these sites are offering all of this personal finance data visualization to individuals for free–something that would not have been possible on such a mass scale only a decade ago.

]]> By: Jeffry Pilcher http://blog.findabetterbank.com/spending-time-visualize-your-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Jeffry Pilcher Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:06:50 +0000 http://blog.findabetterbank.com/?p=517#comment-7 This is a very good analysis. I don't think I've ever seen anyone compare these three tools before. One thing that's nice about visualizing data (financial or otherwise) is that not everyone is a "numbers person." If you're visually based, watching something like CNBC with stock tickers and commodities prices flying around can be quite overwhelming. This is a very good analysis. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone compare these three tools before.

One thing that’s nice about visualizing data (financial or otherwise) is that not everyone is a “numbers person.” If you’re visually based, watching something like CNBC with stock tickers and commodities prices flying around can be quite overwhelming.

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