Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Satellites
Naturally we have talked a lot about Rosetta and Philae the last few weeks. While Philae has exhausted its battery supply, Rosetta continues to orbit Comet 67P as that satellite’s own satellite. But what about Earth? What about our satellites? Thankfully the folks over at Quartz mapped that out for us in this great graphic. […]
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Can You Land Philae
Read on…: Can You Land PhilaeToday is Friday, so let’s take it a bit easy. You have heard of Philae and the comet landing. But we also know now that it bounced upon landing. But could you do any better? The BBC produced this game to let you try to do just that. Credit for the piece goes to the […]
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Mapping Equal Populations
Read on…: Mapping Equal PopulationsAfter a week of some depressing material. Let’s lighten things up. Since, you know, it is a Friday. Two weeks ago we looked at comparisons of actual geographic area. These are sometimes useful comparisons. But more often than not we are talking about the people that live in said areas. And speaking as someone who […]
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Philae on 67P
Read on…: Philae on 67PIn a few hours—not long after this blog post is published—we should know whether or not the washing-maching sized probe Philae has successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The operation is very complicated, this is a moving and spinning comet with a boulder-strewn surface dotted with ice spires. And as of a few hours the lander […]
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University Graduation
Read on…: University GraduationToday’s piece from the Washington Post examines the graduation rates of 100 people who enrolled at university in 2002. The data set tracked them over the following six years. Credit for the piece goes to Darla Cameron.