Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Iraq. Again.
Well, Iraq is in the news again. Basically because the Islamist insurgency in Syria has now crossed the border—to be fair, though, that happened awhile back—and taken control over swathes of northern Iraq. Part of that swath includes the city of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city with a population of almost 2 million. The New York […]
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Unemployment Rates
Read on…: Unemployment RatesToday’s post is a New York Times piece that looks at state levels of unemployment. In particular, whether states have returned to pre-Recession levels of employment. (Spoiler, they have not.) Credit for the piece goes to Alicia Parlapiano.
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Blight, not Panic, in Detroit
Read on…: Blight, not Panic, in DetroitA little old, but this graphic from the New York Times explores urban blight in Detroit. The interesting feature about the map is the blue, highlighted section. The designers used Google Streetview to show an actual blighted street. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times graphics department.