Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: A Royal Nation
You may recall a year and a half ago a post I wrote up about a New York Times piece looking at the fandoms of baseball in the United States. Well fresh off their hometown Royals’ World Series victory, the folks at the Kansas City Star revisited the graphic—driven by Facebook likes—to see if there had been any change. Sure…
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Friday Night in Paris
Read on…: Friday Night in ParisSo Paris happened. But the question is how exactly? Thankfully the New York Times are on it as they try to explain Friday night. Worth pointing out the list of credits below. Clearly the piece was a team effort. Credit for the piece goes to Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews, Larry Buchanan, Jennifer Daniel, Ford Fessenden, Evan Grothjan, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Haeyoun…
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Job Gains
Read on…: Job GainsYou should all know by now I am sucker for small multiples. So it should come as no surprise to you that I liked this piece from Friday from the Wall Street Journal. It looks at payroll and wage growth across various sectors in the American economy. And what I really like is that they took a space at the…
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Water on Demand
Read on…: Water on DemandThanks, Brazilian tree forest company, for inspiring cities to provide us with water on demand. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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The Relative Value of Republican Primary Votes
Read on…: The Relative Value of Republican Primary VotesThe day after Election Day—no, not that Election Day—we take a look at a nice scatter plot from FiveThirtyEight. They explore how an eventual conservative candidate, whoever that may be, will face a structural challenge. There are slightly more delegates at play in blue states than red. And typically those blue Republicans are “less religious, more moderate and less rural.”…
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Sailing Through Southeast Asian Waters
Read on…: Sailing Through Southeast Asian WatersToday the US sent a guided missile destroyer through what China claims—but few recognise as—its sovereign territory, twelve nautical miles off the coast of semi-artificial islands. This piece from Quartz illustrates just some of the overlapping claims of the Spratley Islands. In the end, nothing happened to the destroyer as China did not counter it with ships or aircraft. Credit…