Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: The Life Expectancy Gap Between Men and Women
Today’s post comes via my coworker Jonathan and his subscription to National Geographic. The spread below looks at the gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States. Outliers are highlighted by drawing lines to the counties in question while the same colour scale is used on a smaller map to look at historic data. And of…
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Navigating the CTA
Read on…: Navigating the CTAGetting around Chicago can sometimes be difficult if you intend on taking public transit. So here is a map to aid you in your travels. Just watch out for the goombas and koopa troopas. Credit for the idea goes to David Delisle and for this updated version to Robert Bacon.
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March Madness Continues
Read on…: March Madness ContinuesI imagined that I would be finished with posts about this March Madness thing. However, the New Yorker released its own bracket system that interested me—again, with the giant caveat that I know nothing about basketball. To be an interactive bracket, clearly the piece needs to function as a means of following results. However, the New Yorker offers additional layers…
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Periodic Table of Beer Styles
Read on…: Periodic Table of Beer StylesToday’s post comes via a friend and is about beer. What else do you need for a Friday post? Here’s one of the several versions of the chart. It appears to have been based off an original design, but now variations of the re-interpretation are floating around the internet. More importantly though, I’m a whisky guy so I have no…
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The ABCs of the F-35
Read on…: The ABCs of the F-35Certainly in the more illustrative range, a few weeks back the Washington Post published a small piece that looked at the F-35. Somehow it has survived budget cuts and become a monstrous $400 billion defence project. Partly that is because it is being built in three different versions for all the main aircraft-flying service branches: the Air Force (A), the…
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Pro Tip #314: Don’t Stare Into the Sun
Read on…: Pro Tip #314: Don’t Stare Into the SunDon’t stare into the sun. It’ll burn your eyes out, kid. Okay, so maybe that’s a stretch of a reference, but, seriously, don’t. Let the professionals do it with (properly shielded) telescopes and such. This piece from the New York Times looks at a solar flare from 2012 and shows how quickly it developed. The bottom of the piece then…