Category: Infographic

  • Trump Knocks out Cruz

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    Donald Trump will be the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States. Last summer I never imagined I would type those words in all seriousness, but after Trump won a majority of the votes in Indiana and likely swept all the delegates there, Ted Cruz suspended his campaign. Two graphics strike my mind…

  • Who Led Ganister’s Orthodox Church

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    I spent the weekend in Ganister, Pennsylvania (shameless plug, you can learn more about the town on the website I built for it) where my immediate family gathers for Easter. The Orthodox version was obviously far later than the Catholic version this year. When here I try to do research on the town and the…

  • History of Bikes

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    Brendan Barry
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    I do not know how to ride a bicycle. Fell off as a kid and never got back on. Now when I need to get places, I drive a car. But, I do know plenty of you folks do ride bicycles. So this one’s for you. Happy Friday, all. Credit for the piece goes to…

  • Tax Day

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    Brendan Barry
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    So one of the posts I had intended to post was on 18 April, Tax Day. It was just a bar chart from FiveThirtyEight, but it accurately described yours truly. Yep, I filed that last week. Credit for the piece goes to Ben Casselman.

  • The Quadrants of Trump

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    Brendan Barry
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    My apologies to you for the blog being down the last week and a half. This is what happens when I get 33,000 spam comments in the span of 24 hours: the blog crashes. Rest assured, I have lots of things to post. But for today, we are picking up after a yuuugge night for…

  • Mapping a New America

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    The United States of America consists of 50 states and hundreds of cities. In Sunday’s edition of the New York Times Parag Khanna argued for the switch of priority away from the state-level and to effectively the city-level. We have clusters of cities that dominate and drive the national economy. The classic case-in-point is Bowash,…

  • Complex Algorithms

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, all. Today’s piece is funny, but also hits fairly close to home. Not that I live in or near Nebraska. But I work near Excel spreadsheets. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Where’s the Cold Weather?

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    Brendan Barry
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    I prefer colder weather to warmer weather. I like to feel a bit of chill on my skin rather than a bit of warmth. This makes me that asshole who says “it’s great out today”, when the temperature is 5ºC (41ºF). (I also enjoy grey, cloudy days, but that’s a different matter entirely.) Anyway, thanks…

  • Impeaching Rousseff

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    Brendan Barry
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    Who is Rousseff? She is the president of Brazil and both she and her government are currently mired in a corruption scandal. Yesterday a parliamentary committee voted in favour of proceeding with impeachment, the first step in a lengthy process. What is that process? Thankfully, we have a BBC graphic to explain it all. Credit for…

  • Design and Data Visualisation

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today’s piece features a critique of the data visualisation world from Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post. It centres on the difference between these two maps. The one on the left is Ingraham’s and the one on the right from the Pew Charitable Trusts. I do not want to spoil or ruin the article for you—it’s…