Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: How to Salvage a Ship
You might recall that back in January an Italian cruise ship sank after striking submerged rocks. In case you were wondering, the ship is still there. But the plan is to refloat the ship and then tow it to a harbour on the Italian mainland and scrap the ship. The Guardian put together a nice […]
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Apple’s New Mac OS X: And Why I Am Not Buying It
Read on…: Apple’s New Mac OS X: And Why I Am Not Buying ItThe question with Apple computers is when to upgrade the operating system? Apple releases updates every few years. But, I might have to wait and skip the next one, Mountain Lion. After all, Apple is taking a step backward. xkcd explains:
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Visualising Panda Mating
Read on…: Visualising Panda MatingAnimals need to reproduce. Well, except perhaps some of our own species…and so today’s infographic from the Washington Post looks at the birds and the bees. Or rather the pandas and the pandas. Or is that the pandas on pandas? Regardless, the reader can see that panda mating is not easy. Credit for the piece […]
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How an E-mail is Sent. (And No, I Don’t Mean by Pressing Send.)
Read on…: How an E-mail is Sent. (And No, I Don’t Mean by Pressing Send.)Google is a big company. What do big companies do from time to time? Market themselves. And so this is a screenshot from a fun interactive infographic piece that has supplementals from text to photos to videos as Google explains how an e-mail is sent. All the while Google touts its green energy initiatives and […]
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Canada Invades the Land of the Mole People
Read on…: Canada Invades the Land of the Mole PeopleSubways. Home of the mole people. And in the United States an unwanted recipient of government money to build things. Along with being generally unwanted. By those who do not live in cities. Probably because of said mole people. Or something. But in Canada, they like subways. At least enough that Toronto is building an […]
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The Cities of Champions
Read on…: The Cities of ChampionsFrom Slate comes an interactive map of which cities have won what championships across the big four sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey). It plots the championships over time and allows the user to see just how dominant certain cities have been in certain sports. Credit for the piece goes to Chris Kirk.
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Mariano Rivera
Read on…: Mariano RiveraMariano Rivera of the New York Yankees is(was?) one of the best closers in baseball history. I’ll give him that. So when a freakish accident brought to an end his season—and possibly his career—the New York Times of course had an(other) infographic about his historic numbers. But I’m a Red Sox fan. And this whole […]