Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Toronto Keeps It Cool
Last month the Washington Post published a nice article that detailed the deep water cooling system that the city of Toronto, Canada uses to keep itself cool. For the unfamiliar, deep water cooling at its simplest means sucking up very cold water from the bottom of a lake or ocean or wherever you can get […]
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Graduate Degrees
Read on…: Graduate DegreesMany of us know the debt that comes along with undergraduate degrees. Some of you may still be paying yours down. But what about graduate degrees? A recent article from the Wall Street Journal examined the discrepancies between debt incurred in 2015–16 and the income earned two years later. The designers used dot plots for […]
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White Van with Tinted Windows
Read on…: White Van with Tinted WindowsWhere is my mind? On the dark side of the humour scale. Because when I saw this latest Venn diagram from Indexed, my mind leapt somewhere else entirely. At the end of the day, don’t talk to strangers, kids. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.
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The Terrible No Good Chart About Gas Prices
Read on…: The Terrible No Good Chart About Gas PricesSaw this graphic on the Twitter the other day from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), or the D Triple C or D Trip C. The context was that earlier in the day Matt Yglesias posted a clearly tongue-in-cheek chart about how after signing the infrastructure bill, President Biden had single-handedly fixed inflation and gas […]
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Be Kind to Retail and Service Industry Folks
Read on…: Be Kind to Retail and Service Industry FolksFor many years I worked in retail and food service, and for a subset of those years I worked the Christmas shopping season. Black Fridays were indeed awful. And so this graphic that I alluded to last week from Indexed felt appropriate to share. I have no idea how busy in-person retail work will be […]
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Those Are Some Heavy Balls
Read on…: Those Are Some Heavy BallsUnfortunately, I don’t subscribe to Business Insider, but I saw this graphic on the Twitter and felt the need to share it. Primarily because baseball will almost certainly stop at midnight when the owners of the teams will impose a lockout (as opposed to players going on strike). And with that baseball will be on […]
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There’s Water in the Basement
Read on…: There’s Water in the BasementIf you didn’t know, climate change is real and it threatens much of our current way of life. I don’t go so far as to say it threatens the extinction of mankind, because there are nearly seven billion of us and to wipe out every living soul would be a tall order. But, it could […]
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Out of Office
Read on…: Out of OfficeOne of the pieces I flagged a month or so ago around the time of my trip to the Berkshires was this one by Indexed. There was a time in my life when I would receive notifications for e-mail, particularly work e-mail, on my mobile. As a manager, I tend to think that’s…not great. There […]
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Hey Boo Boo
Read on…: Hey Boo BooWhen I was in the Berkshires, one thing I noticed was signs about bears. Bear crossing. Don’t feed the bears. Be beary careful. Okay, not so much the latter. But it was nonetheless odd to a city dweller like myself where I just need to be wary of giant rats. Less than a month later, […]