Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Dude Where Did I Park My Car?
Mother Jones had a lengthy but fascinating piece on urban parking. (I mention the lengthy bit only lest you think it a quick lunch read.) While the design uses a few factettes as sidebars to the main body copy: The more interesting piece is the illustrative comparison of a 1.5 vehicle parking space to the […]
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Blizzard of 2016 Snowfall Totals
Read on…: Blizzard of 2016 Snowfall TotalsYou may have heard that the East Coast received a wee bit of snow. Here is the snowfall map from the Wall Street Journal. I can report that my family received 30 inches. Which makes sense, because they live somewhere near here. That’s a lot of snow. Credit for the piece goes to the Wall […]
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US Fed Forecasts
Read on…: US Fed ForecastsOrganisations that forecast things are not often inclined to go back and review their forecasts against the actual results. So that makes today’s post from the Wall Street Journal fascinating. They reviewed the Federal Reserve’s forecasts for US GDP growth against the actual growth. And it turns out the Fed consistently overestimated US growth. From […]
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Shoes That Weren’t Made for Walking
Read on…: Shoes That Weren’t Made for WalkingHappy Friday, everybody. Today’s piece comes from Indexed. And yep, I have never walked in those shoes. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.
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More on the Muslim Split in the Middle East
Read on…: More on the Muslim Split in the Middle EastYesterday we looked at the Economist’s work on breaking down the Sunni and Shia split throughout the Middle East. Let’s take a look at that again today, especially since the world’s largest Muslim nation dealt with a terror attack overnight. That’s right, Indonesia is actually the world’s largest Muslim country and it is also largely […]
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The Muslim Split in the Middle East
Read on…: The Muslim Split in the Middle EastTurning away from selfies and returning to the upbeat world of the Middle East, today we look at a graphic from the Economist that breaks down the Middle East into the Sunni and Shia sects. See anything that looks familiar? Do you know how Saudi Arabia and Iran are feuding at the moment? Well, take […]
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Selfiexploratory
Read on…: SelfiexploratoryNew year, new selfies. Thankfully we have the Selfiecity to look at a sample of selfies, the goal to determine patterns and trends in the art of the selfie. Of course you also want to be able to look at the aforementioned selfies. For that they built the Selfiexploratory, an application that allows you to […]