Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Kentucky Derby
Read on…: Kentucky DerbyThe Kentucky Derby is this weekend, but your humble author is out until next week. So here is a work from David Yanofsky at Quartz that looks at the average horse times in the one and three-quarter miles at the Kentucky Derby. (I’m a baseball guy, so ask me about Pedro’s strikeout rates in the […]
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Nate Silver Predicts the Presidential Election
Read on…: Nate Silver Predicts the Presidential ElectionOf 2048. Well, kind of. Lately the country has been talking a lot about immigration and its impacts because of this bipartisan desire to achieve some kind of result on an immigration bill working its way through the Senate. One of the common thoughts is that if we legalise a whole bunch of illegals or […]
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Asian Immigration
Read on…: Asian ImmigrationToday I have more immigration-related information graphics and data visualisation for you. Earlier this week the New York Times looked at immigration to California, but this time the focus was on Asian population growth and not Hispanic. The graphic here supports an article looking at where the growth has been focused in California. And given […]
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The Republicans and Hispanic Voters
Read on…: The Republicans and Hispanic VotersFollowing on last week’s posts on immigration comes today’s post on how that might impact Republican politics. Well I say might but pretty much mean definitely. The graphic comes from the Wall Street Journal and it takes a look at the demographic makeup of states, House congressional districts and then survey data on immigration broken into Republicans […]
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More Effective Cartograms
Read on…: More Effective CartogramsThe other day I posted an example of a good cartogram, actually a pair of good ones from the New York Times. Today, I wanted to share another good example. The Economist created this cartogram, map of Great Britain’s constituencies. What is perhaps most effective in this chart, even more so than in the Times’, […]
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Integrating Latino Immigrants into the United States
Read on…: Integrating Latino Immigrants into the United StatesFollowing from yesterday’s post about the undocumented immigrant paths to citizenship, today’s post is a graphic from a New York Times article that looks at the integration of Latinos into the United States vis-a-vis all immigrants. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times.
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Immigrants’ Paths to Citizenship
Read on…: Immigrants’ Paths to CitizenshipLast week several important stories were drowned out by the bombings in Boston. One of those stories was that a group of senators agreed on a compromise immigration bill that would offer undocumented workers in the United States definite plans to citizenship. Of course now that we know the suspects in the Boston bombings were […]