Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Playing Politics
The election campaign for the presidency has begun in earnest. The President launched his official campaign over the weekend and Mitt Romney’s nomination is all but official. So what to do over the next six months? Lots of television adverts—thankfully I’m thinking of cutting my cable—and random events that shape public opinion. And, thanks to the New York Times, you…
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The Greeks Voted Sunday Too
Read on…: The Greeks Voted Sunday TooOver at the Guardian, I was using this interactive piece from igraphics to follow the election results there. (It was a slight bit more interesting than following the French presidential election, because everybody knew Sarkozy was going to lose.) Credit for the piece goes to igraphics, a Greek data visualisation outfit.
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Politics in the Senate
Read on…: Politics in the SenateI 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 placed the states into different…
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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 mapped data begins to clearly…
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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 positions. While unusual, it supports…