Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Mapping Equal Populations
After 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.
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Halloween in Numbers
Read on…: Halloween in NumbersToday is Halloween, so today’s graphic comes from the Guardian. I’ll set aside my criticism of radar/spider charts for today. Credit for the piece goes to Ami Sedghi, Katy Stoddard, and Guardian Graphics.