Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Danger Isn’t My Middle Name
Happy Friday, everyone, we’ve made it to the weekend. When I work with developers I always make clear to them that they are the experts and that they know the best ways of coding the crazy ideas in my head. I then almost always add that I do, however, know a little bit of HTML […]
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Covid Vaccination and Political Polarisation
Read on…: Covid Vaccination and Political PolarisationI will try to get to my weekly Covid-19 post tomorrow, but today I want to take a brief look at a graphic from the New York Times that sat above the fold outside my door yesterday morning. And those who have been following the blog know that I love print graphics above the fold. […]
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Flowing Lava and Layers
Read on…: Flowing Lava and LayersI didn’t have the internet yesterday morning, so apologies for no posting. But at least it was back by the afternoon. Unlike utilities in La Palma, where a volcano has been erupting and lava flowing, covering parts of the island. The BBC had a brief article last week detailing the spread of the lava, which […]
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An Animated Approach to Understanding Vaccines…
Read on…: An Animated Approach to Understanding Vaccines……courtesy of Family Guy. In the last 18 months of looking at the data behind Covid-19 and the vaccines, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people, maybe even some of you, about the pandemic and the vaccines we’re using to combat it. Unfortunately, I’m just one person. Seth MacFarlane, however, has himself and the […]
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Updated DNA Ethnicity Estimates
Read on…: Updated DNA Ethnicity EstimatesEarlier this year I posted a short piece that compared my DNA ethnicity estimates provided by a few different companies to each other. Ethnicity estimates are great cocktail party conversations, but not terribly useful to people doing serious genealogy research. They are highly dependent upon the available data from reference populations. To put it another […]
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Update on Tiffany
Read on…: Update on TiffanyLast month on another Friday I shared some graphics from a video by CCP Grey that looked at the origin and history of the name Tiffany. It’s a great video and I highly recommend it. But last week he published…an addendum I guess you could call it. The piece takes a look at a research […]