Category: Infographic

  • The World’s Fighter Jets

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    As you know, I am a sucker for military-related things. So here we have a piece from the Wall Street Journal on the leading fighter jets of the world. If you have a bone to pick on which jets were included, please take that up with them and not me. The screenshot is from the…

  • Life Expectancy in the US and All Its States

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Monday, all. If this week’s news cycle cooperates, I am going to try and catch up on some things I have seen over the last several weeks that got bumped because of, well, Trump usually. Today we start with a piece on life expectancy from FiveThirtyEight. The piece begins with a standard choropleth to…

  • Where in the World Is North Korea?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Donald Trump and I have one thing in common today. Boy are we both glad today is finally Friday—what a week. So in that vein, let us keep it semi-light today with a piece from the New York Times that I saw earlier this week. Before we share the screenshot, however, I should point out…

  • Brexit and the British General Election

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    Brendan Barry
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    On 8 June, Britons will go to the polls in a general election that Prime Minister Theresa May called to increase her parliamentary majority. The United Kingdom faces a number of issues—I am looking at you housing and the NHS for starters—but Brexit is on the minds of a lot of people. That makes sense,…

  • The Disappearing Urban Middle Class

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today we look at income in American cities and in particular the middle class disappearance. The Guardian published the graphics, but they originate with Metrocosm, LTDB at Brown, and IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System. So what are we looking at? Well, the big one is a set of small multiples of cities and their income breakdowns…

  • North Korea’s Latest Missile Test

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    Brendan Barry
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    If you missed it—and these days that is entirely possible—over the weekend, North Korea tested yet another missile. It did land very far away as it fell just off the coast of North Korea near Russia. But it did travel far enough away to be of concern. Why? Well, this print graphic from the New York Times…

  • Comey Contradictions

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week was crazy, am I right? But one thing that made complete sense was President Trump’s rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey. And to prove just how much of a logical, straight-line reasoning there was we have this graphic from Sunday’s edition of the New York Times. Okay, so maybe that is not…

  • Obsessions

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    Brendan Barry
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    Can we all agree that it was just a long week? Time to find some funny. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • The US Census Bureau

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    Brendan Barry
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    There is no graphic today. Why? Because I want to illustrate a point that a lot of the work I and others in the information design world depends upon data. After all it puts the data in data visualisation. But yesterday the director of the US Census Bureau resigned because the Trump administration would not…

  • Trump Fires Comey

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    Brendan Barry
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    I miss the days when I could design a weekly content strategy. Well, at least sometimes I would design a weekly content strategy. Nowadays I find that what I want to do is often trumped by news out of Washington and the administration. And that news is the abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey.…