Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: My/Your Dialect
Joshua Katz from North Carolina State University has created an interactive version of the dialect survey maps first perhaps popularised several years ago. Katz has also created an interactive map that looks at a city’s dialect and maps its areas of similarity and difference. An interesting extension of the original survey data, however, is the […]
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Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
Read on…: Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar SystemLast week NASA announced that last year, Voyager 1 left the Solar System about 25 August 2012. A lot of the graphics that were published to support that story chronicled the distance travelled by that probe. However, this excellent graphic by the Los Angeles Times instead looks at how NASA determined through the data returned […]
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#GetBeard
Read on…: #GetBeardNormally this would be a Friday post. But, for those of you fellow Red Sox fans who happen to live near enough to Fenway to go catch a game, Wednesday night is Dollar Beard Night. This graphic by the Red Sox details the different types of beards worn by Red Sox players this year. It’s […]
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Survey Says We Don’t Answer Surveys
Read on…: Survey Says We Don’t Answer SurveysToday’s post comes via @dansidor and in fairness isn’t quite about a graphic, but rather how to obtain data for a graphic. Or not. I’m not really sure. To hell with it. It’s Friday. Have a weekend. Credit for the graphic goes to ND at Wikicommons.
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Rebuilding Chicago’s Red Line
Read on…: Rebuilding Chicago’s Red LineFor those of you who read this blog in Chicago know very well that the Red Line, Chicago’s busiest subway line, is undergoing major construction as the transit authority rebuilds much of the line. But what exactly does that entail? Earlier this year the Chicago Tribune looked at that and with a series of illustrations, […]
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It’s a Zepplin! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chopper! Nope…
Read on…: It’s a Zepplin! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chopper! Nope……it’s an Aeroscraft! This interactive, diagrammatic infographic from the Los Angeles Times explains just how the aeroscraft is part zeppelin, part plane, and part chopper. Credit for the piece goes to Raoul Ranoa and Anthony Pesce.
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Mapping the Stars
Read on…: Mapping the StarsOf the acting and directing world over time. This interactive piece from the New York Times charts the networks between actors and directors. The networks on the right while examples and stories are located to the left. When you scroll to an example, the network to the right is highlighted in yellow. If you click […]
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New Layout
Read on…: New LayoutA ways back I decided that when the mobile viewership of Coffee Spoons reached a certain threshold I would implement a new, more mobile-friendly theme—something simpler and faster. Well last week you all crossed that threshold and so today we have a new and responsive theme. I am sure that there will be kinks, but […]
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But Can You Do the Gerrymander?
Read on…: But Can You Do the Gerrymander?It’s Friday. And that means you will likely be contorting on the dance floor this weekend. But if you tried to bend to conform to any of these congressional districts, you would likely break your back. Gerrymandering is an old practice that basically allows state governments to decide what area (and therefore populations) belong to […]