Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Habitable Exoplanets
What is out there beyond our solar system? Are there little green men in flying saucers? Or Klingons waging war? The first step in figuring that out is knowing how many planets can be inhabited by life as we know it. This interactive graphic from National Geographic explores just that. And as it turns out, […]
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American College Football Part Deux
Read on…: American College Football Part DeuxA couple of weeks ago I shared a map from the New York Times that looked at American college football programme loyalty. And I quipped that none of it made sense to me as someone born and raised in the Northeast. The New York Times followed that piece up with another that looks solely at […]
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Thanksgiving Recipes by State
Read on…: Thanksgiving Recipes by StateToday is an American holiday: Thanksgiving. We give thanks that European diseases and military technology allowed us to remove the native population for colonisation of the continent. We do that by watching American football and eating lots and lots of food. For dessert, well, we have dessert. But also gluttonous amounts of shopping. So in […]
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The American Empire
Read on…: The American EmpireThe United States has a long history of deploying troops overseas. How long? And where to? Well, ABC (as in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) mapped out every US deployment dating back to 1798. I captured the year 2014, but if you are curious, you should check it out for yourself. A neat little bonus, watch […]
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After the Curtain Dropped
Read on…: After the Curtain DroppedLast week we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the lasting impact in former East Germany vs. former West Germany. This week we look at a piece from Bloomberg Businessweek that looks more broadly at Eastern Europe. The piece scrolls with the charts updating based upon the available text. And within that text […]
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We All Have to Die…But How?
Read on…: We All Have to Die…But How?As the title says, we are all going to die one of these days. But what are the odds that Ebola will kill you? Turns out it is fairly small. Smaller than your pyjamas catching on fire and killing you. Or even your regular clothes catching fire. How did I know that? Well, the Washington […]
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Looking at Languages
Read on…: Looking at LanguagesLanguages can be fascinating things. And not necessarily just in Klingon. Vox has a post using 23 maps and graphics to look at language. As usual with these sorts of things, some are good. Others not so much. Credit for the highlighted piece goes to Minna Sundberg via Dylan Matthews.