Keywords: Naa newspaper ad revenue.svg en US newspaper advertising revenue corrected for inflation 2013-06-29 See below Dave Farrance Source Created with Matplotlib Graph and source program are own work by uploader Numerical data from the http //www naa org/Trends-and-Numbers/Newspaper-Revenue aspx Trends Numbers web publication by the Newspaper Association of America and the http //www bls gov/cpi/ tables Consumer Price Index by the United States Department of Labor A similar graph to this appeared previously on the http //mjperry blogspot com/2012/09/freefall-adjusted-for-inflation-print html Carpe Diem blog of Mark J Perry This graph was created with the following Python/Matplotlib script <source lang python > /usr/bin/env python from matplotlib pylab import print1950 2070 2251 2464 2632 2685 3077 3223 3268 3176 3526 3681 3601 3659 3780 4120 4426 4865 4910 5232 5714 5704 6167 6939 7481 7842 8234 9618 10751 12213 13863 14794 16527 17694 20581 23522 25170 26990 29412 31197 32368 32280 30349 30639 31869 34109 36092 38075 41330 43925 46289 48670 44305 44102 44939 46703 47408 46611 42209 34740 24821 22795 20692 18931 onlin2003 1216 1541 2027 2664 3166 3109 2743 3042 3249 3370 infla1950 1 3 7 9 1 9 0 8 0 7 -0 4 1 5 3 3 2 8 0 7 1 7 1 0 1 0 1 3 1 3 1 6 2 9 3 1 4 2 5 5 5 7 4 4 3 2 6 2 11 0 9 1 5 8 6 5 7 6 11 3 13 5 10 3 6 2 3 2 4 3 3 6 1 9 3 6 4 1 4 8 5 4 4 2 3 0 3 0 2 6 2 8 3 0 2 3 1 6 2 2 3 4 2 8 1 6 2 3 2 7 3 4 3 2 2 8 3 8 -0 4 1 6 3 2 2 1 corr1950 array 0 001 len infla1950 for j in range len corr1950 - 2 -1 -1 corr1950j corr1950j+1 100 0 + infla1950j / 100 0 rc 'axes' lw 2 0 plot range 1950 1950 + len print1950 print1950 corr1950 'r-' lw 4 0 label 'Print revenue' plot range 2003 2003 + len onlin2003 onlin2003 corr19502003 - 1950 'b-' lw 4 0 label 'Online revenue' xticks size 18 yticks size 18 va 'baseline' grid lw 0 75 ylabel Billions of today\'s dollars size 18 rc 'legend' fontsize 18 ; legend loc 2 savefig 'naa_newspaper_ad_revenue svg' show </source> With the proviso that some rights to the numerical source data may be retained by the Newspaper Association of America I release the graph and its source program to the public domain cc-zero Advertising Newspaper advertising Commerce Unidentified graphs Images with Python source code |