Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Your Central Visual Field
Read on…: Your Central Visual FieldFrom XKCD comes an informative infographic about your central visual field. As always, it’s quite informative. It’s not quite light hearted for Friday, but you’ll probably get an odd look or a laugh when you move your face really close to your monitor… Also as always, credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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USS Iowa
Read on…: USS IowaBattleships are cool. Pointless in the 21st century, but they’re still cool. And now the USS Iowa is open as a museum in Los Angeles. Around the opening of the museum earlier this month, the LA Times put together a few graphics that were collected in one infographic piece that illustrated some of those parts of the ship open to…
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United Shapes
Read on…: United ShapesAnd for the lighter side to end the week, via xkcd:
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It’s Been Hot
Read on…: It’s Been HotIn case you missed it, the weather the past few weeks has been hot across much of the United States. Last week the Washington Post published an infographic on temperatures in the District of Columbia. As it turns out, it has been hot. But it appears that in mid-June a few years ago, the temperature was below 70 degrees. Why…
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Blowing Things Up (Or Shooting Them Down)
Read on…: Blowing Things Up (Or Shooting Them Down)After an odd two short weeks—imagine two weeks with each only having a Monday and a Friday—we (in the royal sense of I) are back to the routine. So what better way than to look at American awesomeness in blowing things up. Through air strikes launched from US aircraft carriers. This graphic comes from the New York Times and looks…