Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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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.
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American College Football Programme Loyalty
Read on…: American College Football Programme LoyaltyAmerican college football. This is not a thing that Northeasters like myself understand. And it is not just because yours truly attended the University of the Arts whose only competitive sporting team was, I believe, fencing. Here in the Midwest, many things are strange and alien. One of them is their affinity for said sports […]
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Eli Manning’s Brother and the Record Books
Read on…: Eli Manning’s Brother and the Record BooksTwo weekends ago Eli Manning’s brother accomplished a feat in American football. And it was not in Indianapolis. The New York Times documented the story in an interactive article. In fairness, I generally do not follow American football. I am largely a one sport person and that sport is baseball. But since the active baseball […]
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Calories and Consumption
Read on…: Calories and ConsumptionNational Geographic recently published a piece designed and built for them by Fathom Information Group. Content-wise, they looked at the historic consumption of food by several different countries. What do individual food groups contribute to the overall nutritional breakdown? For the piece this basically amounted to morphing donut charts. I get the reference, but do […]
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Chinese Nuclear Submarine Navy
Read on…: Chinese Nuclear Submarine NavyThis weekend the Wall Street Journal published an article that combined my interest in data visualisation with my interest in naval ships. The article looks at the growth of the Chinese nuclear submarine programme. And alongside the article are maps, charts, illustrations, and a narrated video that support the written word. Credit for the piece […]