Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: More Internet, More Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg wants to get more people on the internet. And why not, it’s not like his company, a small entity you may not have heard of called Facebook, has anything to do with the internet. So this map by the Washington Post looks at what proportions of the world’s countries are using the internet. […]
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Is it Getting Warmer in Here?
Read on…: Is it Getting Warmer in Here?Yes, yes it is. This map from the Washington Post looks at global temperature change since 1901. The article it supports is about how scientists are now all but certain mankind is responsible for global warming. Personally I prefer the term climate change because global warming sounds as if everything warms and as this map shows, […]
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Say What?
Read on…: Say What?This map comes from the Washington Post and it uses the American Community Survey to explore languages spoken by Americans at home other than English. I got stuck (in a good way) on the seemingly random counties of German speakers. After I poked around a bit, I found one where almost 50% of the county […]
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Bloomberg’s New York
Read on…: Bloomberg’s New YorkFor those of you who read this blog and are not from New York, Mayor Bloomberg is done later this year; he is not running for reelection. So now is the time for retrospective and plaudits for the long-serving mayor. The New York Times published a piece this weekend examining how all of Bloomberg’s changes […]
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3D Movie Success
Read on…: 3D Movie SuccessToday’s graphic comes from Thomson Reuters. It charts the success of 3D movies that have been released and how long those movies stayed in the theatres. Credit for the piece goes to S. Scarr, G. Cabrera, and K. Pong.
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Space Weather
Read on…: Space WeatherA few weeks ago the Washington Post published a graphic that explained how space weather can have significant impacts on Earth. This is more of an illustrated diagram and less of a data visualisation piece, but it still worth a read. Why? Because, if scientists are correct, the sun’s magnetic poles should soon finish a […]
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Doctor Who?
Read on…: Doctor Who?I don’t often link to FlowingData because I figure that most of my audience is already looking there. But, sometimes, Nathan’s work is just that good. And sometimes the subject matter is just so fantastic that I have no other choice. (It doesn’t hurt that I was looking to do something like this over the […]