Davis Freeberg’s Site Of The Week
This week’s winner of the site of the week was Measuring Worth. The site was founded by Lawrence Officer and Samuel Williamson. They’ve dedicated the site to helping people understand and calculate the relative worth or money over time. What’s neat about what they’ve created is that it includes several different calculators that you can use to help figure out what something in the past would be worth today.
This can be very useful for looking up information like whether the amount of money that pro basketball players make today is more or less then it was 20 years ago or whether the price of your home has appreciated faster or slower then wages.
The site does have some drawbacks. Because of the data needed to calculate these sorts of things, it can only track statistics up to 2005 and 2006 depending on the metric you are looking at, but on the plus side, their calculators can go as far back as 1,774, if you want to figure out what Thomas Jefferson would have paid for his broadband internet connection and you can actually go back as far as 1,257, if you wanted to see how much the price of gold has changed over the years. Overall, I found Measuring Worth to be very useful and I’m sure that it will be a resource that I come back to in the future. Congratulations to Officer and Williamson on creating such a great site and for winning this week’s site of the week award.
If you have any sites that you’d like to nominate for site of the week, please feel free to email them to me at Davis AT DavisFreeberg Dot Com. You can see the nomination for next week’s site of the week listed below. Please feel free to vote in the sidebar.
Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Site Of The Week
Good find! Those calculators are fun. As soon as I work out the kinks on my time machine, I’m going to 1790 to buy some real estate.