Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Russians in the Sky
Read on…: Russians in the SkyThis piece has been sitting for a month, but I still enjoy it. The Washing Post maps out Russian air activity around NATO airspace over a two-day period. Credit for the piece goes to Gene Thorp.
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Habitable Exoplanets
Read on…: Habitable ExoplanetsWhat 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, most of the exoplanets we…
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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 Facebook likes of college football…
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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 that spirit, here is the…
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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 the growth of the borders…
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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 are highlighted keywords with which…