Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Politics in the Senate
I don’t normally do the re-posts to the other blogs I follow, but this post on Flowing Data is a link to an interesting piece of analysis on the political groups in the US Senate. It’s worth a(nother) look.
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Battleground States
Read on…: Battleground StatesThe BBC provides an interactive tool to explore the battleground states in the forthcoming election. A giant donut chart with 50 segments maps a segment to a state and its total number of electoral votes. The larger the electoral vote, e.g. California, the larger the segment. Beyond just a giant chart, however, the BBC has […]
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Nope, It’s Just Clouds in the Shapes of Birds and Planes.
Read on…: Nope, It’s Just Clouds in the Shapes of Birds and Planes.Supporting an article about how the clouds are the last great hope for the climate change skeptics, the New York Times published an interesting infographic that looks at cloud cover and insolation, the amount of solar energy that irradiates the planet. The main feature is an animation of a year’s worth of cloud cover. The […]
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Kickstarter Fundraising
Read on…: Kickstarter FundraisingKickstarter has been around for a little while now, financing some interesting projects. The New York Times has an infographic about how much each project earned. And while there is nothing particularly fancy about each, they are all scatter plots, the quirk is that the time and value axes have been reversed from their customary […]
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It’s Neither a Bird Nor a Plane. It’s a Space Shuttle. On Top of a Plane.
Read on…: It’s Neither a Bird Nor a Plane. It’s a Space Shuttle. On Top of a Plane.I loved the space shuttle. I mean how awesome is it that the lead ship of the class is named after the Enterprise from Star Trek. But seriously, it was a brick with little stub wings for gliding. It was not meant for flying. So now that all the shuttles are all retired—that’s a whole […]
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North Korean Missile Technology (Or Lack Thereof)
Read on…: North Korean Missile Technology (Or Lack Thereof)North Korea wanted to launch a missile, but failed miserably in doing it. Richard Johnson at the National Post created an infographic, prior to the missile’s launch, that looked at what the North Koreans wanted to do.
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The Short and Winding (Mountain) Road (vs. the Long and Straight Midwest Interstate)
Read on…: The Short and Winding (Mountain) Road (vs. the Long and Straight Midwest Interstate)Last weekend I visited Ganister, Pennsylvania to see family, meet some old family friends, do some research, and generally just get out of Chicago. After I arrived, I realised I wasted an opportunity to tell the story of the drive out. So, I made a mental note to record some data on the long drive […]