Author: Brendan Barry

  • Where in the Solar System is Carmen Sandiego?

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    Today’s post is a location map that comes from Nasa. What locations? Those of its various spacecraft, such as Rosetta and Cassini. Humanity is all over the solar system. Admittedly, I think the map could be cleaner and clearer, but that the subject matter can be mapped is still just pretty cool. Credit for the…

  • On Holiday in Ganister

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    Well, actually, your author is driving back from Ganister today. Unfortunately, while on holiday I was not working (nor was I planning to.) So while I could of run silent today, I wanted to share with all of you again a project I created last year about my return drive from Ganister. For all of…

  • Kentucky Derby

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    The Kentucky Derby is this weekend, but your humble author is out until next week. So here is a work from David Yanofsky at Quartz that looks at the average horse times in the one and three-quarter miles at the Kentucky Derby. (I’m a baseball guy, so ask me about Pedro’s strikeout rates in the…

  • Mobile Phones

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    Earlier this year, the mobile phone (or cell phone for many Americans) turned 40. Today’s infographic comes from the National Post and looks at the history and the near future of the mobile phone market, mobile phones, and related technologies. A nice touch is a actual-scale drawing (best seen in print) comparing a modern iPhone…

  • Nate Silver Predicts the Presidential Election

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    Of 2048. Well, kind of. Lately the country has been talking a lot about immigration and its impacts because of this bipartisan desire to achieve some kind of result on an immigration bill working its way through the Senate. One of the common thoughts is that if we legalise a whole bunch of illegals or…

  • Asian Immigration

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    Today I have more immigration-related information graphics and data visualisation for you. Earlier this week the New York Times looked at immigration to California, but this time the focus was on Asian population growth and not Hispanic. The graphic here supports an article looking at where the growth has been focused in California. And given…

  • The Republicans and Hispanic Voters

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    Following on last week’s posts on immigration comes today’s post on how that might impact Republican politics. Well I say might but pretty much mean definitely. The graphic comes from the Wall Street Journal and it takes a look at the demographic makeup of states, House congressional districts and then survey data on immigration broken into Republicans…

  • Analysing Your (Facebook) Social Networks

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    Earlier this week, Wolfram Alpha released some findings from its analytics project on Facebook. While the results offer quite a bit to digest, the use of some data visualisation makes it a little bit easier. And a lot more interesting. The results offer quite a bit of detail on interests, relationship statuses, geographic locations, and…

  • More Effective Cartograms

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    The other day I posted an example of a good cartogram, actually a pair of good ones from the New York Times. Today, I wanted to share another good example. The Economist created this cartogram, map of Great Britain’s constituencies. What is perhaps most effective in this chart, even more so than in the Times’,…

  • Integrating Latino Immigrants into the United States

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    Following from yesterday’s post about the undocumented immigrant paths to citizenship, today’s post is a graphic from a New York Times article that looks at the integration of Latinos into the United States vis-a-vis all immigrants. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times.