Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Battalion Tactical Groups
As Russia redeploys its forces in and around Ukraine, you can expect to hear more about how they are attempting to reconstitute their battalion tactical groups. But what exactly is a battalion tactical group? Recently in Russia, the army has been reorganised increasingly away from regiments and divisions and towards smaller, more integrated units that theoretically can operate more independently:…
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Keeping Things in Scale
Read on…: Keeping Things in ScaleAnother week of amazing, happy, awesome news. So let’s keep it all in perspective with this graphic from xkcd. We all made it to Friday, so enjoy your weekend, everyone. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 6 April
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 6 AprilIt’s been a week since my last update and that’s in part because a lot has changed. When we last spoke, the Russians had announced they had successfully completed the first phase of the “special military operation”. They didn’t. Instead, Russian forces have completed a full-on retreat from northern Ukraine, sending troops and equipment back to Belarus and western Russia…
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Russo-Ukrainian War Refugees: 5 April
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War Refugees: 5 AprilJust a quick update as I try to update my battle map. Today we’re taking another look at the refugee crisis Putin created in eastern and central Europe. Over four million Ukrainians have left Ukraine and millions more have been displaced internally within Ukraine. Whilst we may hope they will eventually return home, the photos and videos we are seeing…
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Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 29 March
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 29 MarchI took a few days off from covering the war in Ukraine. Now it’s time to jump back in and catch up on things. Putin and his generals have declared the first phase of his “special military operation” over and that it was a success. They claimed that their goal was never the capture of Kyiv or other major cities…
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Russo-Ukrainian War Refugees
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War RefugeesThis data took far longer to clean up than it should have. And for that reason I’m going to have to keep the text here relatively short. We still see tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Putin’s war in Ukraine. Although, we are down from the peaks early on in this war. In total, nearly four million have fled their…
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Party Time
Read on…: Party TimeIt’s the end of the week and as we try to keep it light, no Ukraine post today. Instead, we turn to xkcd for a helpful guide of how to plan parties. It’s a simple chart. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 23 March
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War Update: 23 MarchJust when I thought I wasn’t going to post an update, we get some news out of Kyiv itself. The municipal government allowed journalists to see an unclassified map of the battlefield as they understand it. It highlighted those areas where Ukrainians have recaptured areas captured by the Russians in the first four weeks. A lot has been said about…
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Russo-Ukrainian War: 22 March Update
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War: 22 March UpdateI’m still trying to post these updates in the morning about what happened yesterday, even though we’re well into the afternoon in Ukraine. The situation on the ground, at least in terms of territorial change, remains largely static. I mentioned yesterday how Ukraine recaptured the town of Makariv. Yesterday, Ukrainian forces made a broader push in that area and there…
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Russo-Ukrainian War Update
Read on…: Russo-Ukrainian War UpdateYesterday we looked at no-fly zones. Today I want to take a brief moment to look at the status of the war on the ground. I’ve been doing this later in the evening on my social media because of the time zone difference, but I want to see if it works holding off the posting until the morning. The status…