Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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What Time Is It?
Read on…: What Time Is It?North Korea Time! But no, seriously, North Korea announced this past Friday that it is placing itself inside a new time zone. This Washington Post piece has a graphic that looks at just how weird the new time zone is in relation to the rest of the region. Credit for the piece goes to the […]
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Diagramming the Phases of Water
Read on…: Diagramming the Phases of WaterEven when things are funny, I do not always laugh aloud. This xkcd post, however, made me do just that. And for that, it’s going up on the blog as today’s graphic of choice. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Read on…: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiOn 6 August 1945, the United States dropped one of the only two nuclear weapons used in combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. 70 years later, the city has been rebuilt and the war is long since done and over—the atomic bombings playing no small part in changing the Japanese calculus of surrender. But, […]
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Kepler 452b
Read on…: Kepler 452bSo this is sort of a recycled post, in the sense that I talked about it back in April of 2013. But it’s worth revisiting in light of last month’s announcement of Kepler 452b. For those unaware, the planet is a little bit larger than Earth, but is believed to be a potentially rocky planet […]
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MH370 Found?
Read on…: MH370 Found?Last night (Central Daylight time), news broke that what might be part of the wing of a Boeing 777, which is the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysian Flight 370, washed up on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The Guardian was following the story last night and one of […]
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Your Average Daily Sunshine
Read on…: Your Average Daily Sunshine(Hint, it’s not me.) I was talking with someone the other day about how I dislike warm weather. Give me nice, cool, crisp weather any day of the week. And also how I am okay without sunshine—a cool, misty, grey day is lovely. Much of weather, of course, is determined by sunlight, energy, hitting the […]
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The Funding Sources for the 2016 Candidates
Read on…: The Funding Sources for the 2016 CandidatesWe are past the halfway point for summer in 2015 and that means the autumn 2016 presidential election is off and running. But running an election campaign, if even just for the primary phase, costs money. So where does each candidate receive its money? Well, FiveThirtyEight looked at the early reporting and identified four types. […]