Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Bad Film February
Did you go to the cinema in February? Well, according to some research done by Slate, what you watched probably sucked. I’m just glad I never went last month. Maybe March will be a little bit better. Credit for the piece goes to Chris Kirk and Kim Thompson.
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World War II Bombs in Hong Kong
Read on…: World War II Bombs in Hong KongLast month, police in Hong Kong defused a 2000 pound (900 kilogram) bomb found undetonated since World War II. The South China Morning Post created a small graphic to diagram just what the bomb was and how it was delivered (by US aircraft) to Hong Kong. Credit for the piece goes to Adolfo Arranz.
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Walking Down the Street
Read on…: Walking Down the StreetBusiness Insider posted a neat graphic that compared the walkability of a suburban neighbourhood outside Seattle to a dense urban neighbourhood in Seattle. Turns out you can walk a lot more and further in a gridded mile than in a faux-organic sprawl. Credit for the piece goes to Sightline Institute.
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Around the World
Read on…: Around the WorldIf you’ll allow your humble author a humblebrag, I often complain about having to daily deal with people around the world living in a lot of different time zones. How do I keep track of business hours around the world? I don’t. Well, not easily. But thanks to xkcd, this is no longer a problem. This is only a screenshot.…
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The Science Behind the Thoroughbred
Read on…: The Science Behind the ThoroughbredI do not know a thing about horses. I leave that knowledge to others in my family. However, this piece from the South China Morning Post explains quite a bit of why the thoroughbred is such a famous type of horse for racing. Credit for the piece goes to Alberto Lucas López.
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Defensive Incest
Read on…: Defensive IncestToday’s piece comes from Bloomberg Businessweek. In the wake of the Pentagon’s decision to push for budget cuts including force reduction and slashing several programmes, I decided to show this chord diagram that shows how the defence industry supports itself. Credit for the piece goes to Robert Levinson, Dorothy Gambrell, and David Evans.
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Potholes
Read on…: PotholesToday’s piece is from the Washington Post. However, it is less data visualisation and more of a neat little motion graphic explaining the formation of pot holes. Since it seems to be about that time of year when roads are destroyed by the things. Credit for the piece goes to Sohail Al-Jamea and Bonnie Berkowitz.
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Household Income Inequality
Read on…: Household Income InequalityThe Washington Post published this dot plot graphic to explore inequality in household income across numerous American cities. The chart, as most dot plots do, does a good job of showing where several distinct points within a set fall within the entire range of data. Or to put it into other words, where do the poorest, the richest, and the…