Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Trumpland vs. Clintonopolis
I was not sure if I wanted to file this under either my humourous Friday posts or my regular weekday posts, but I ultimately decided to go with the weekly postings. Why? It’s simply a different way of visualising the election results, by separating the two camps into two separate Americas. One is the geography connected by Trump’s victory, the…
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Boston Beer Company
Read on…: Boston Beer CompanyBoston Beer Company is the parent company of Sam Adams, which is definitely one of those beers I imbibe when I visit Boston. But, as one of the larger craft brewers in the United States, it finds itself under immense competition. This article from Bloomberg examines the situation the brewery finds itself in from a share price, growth, and revenue standpoint.…
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The Sorting Hat
Read on…: The Sorting HatWell the election is finally over. And since last week I used my Friday post to talk about something serious, I apologise for backtracking just a wee bit to go back to the election. This summer I had a discussion with one of the designers I worked with at the time, Ciana Frenze. We were sitting out in the Art…
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Detroit’s Housing Market
Read on…: Detroit’s Housing MarketA few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal published a graphic that I thought could use some work. I like line charts, and I think line charts with two or three lines that overlap can be legible. But when I see five in five colours in a small space…well not so much. So I spent 45 minutes attempting to rework…
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Election Day
Read on…: Election DayWell this is it. Well at least for you American readers of this blog. It’s Election Day. If you had told me that this is what it would come to almost a year and a half ago, I would have laughed. But it did. And now it comes down to all of us to vote, unless unlike me you live in…
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The Affordable Care Act You Likely Know as Obamacare
Read on…: The Affordable Care Act You Likely Know as ObamacareIt just won’t die. Grandma, that is, in front of the death panels of Obamacare. Remember those? Well, even if you don’t, the Affordable Care Act (the actual name for Obamacare) is still around despite repeated attempts to repeal it. So in this piece from Bloomberg, Obamacare is examined from the perspective of leaving 27 million people uninsured. In 2010,…
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Climate Change
Read on…: Climate ChangeSo this is the last Friday before the election next Tuesday. Normally I reserve Fridays for less serious topics. And often xkcd does a great job covering that for me. But because of the election, I want today’s to be a bit more serious. Thankfully, we still have xkcd for that. The screenshot above gets to the point. But the whole…