Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Happy St. Patrick’s Day
A day early given the weekend…so yeah, I’m (mostly) Irish-American. So this post is for the (extended) family.
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What’s Your Drug of Choice?
Read on…: What’s Your Drug of Choice?Over at the Guardian, people are playing with data about drug use. The data comes from the Global Drug Survey, and Ian Taylor and the Guardian worked together to create this interactive piece that lets you either browse drug use comparisons between Americans and Brits or compare two specific drugs between our two peoples. It looks like we al drink…
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How to Draw a Star
Read on…: How to Draw a Starxkcd presents this instructional diagram of how to (not) draw a star.
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Busting Bunkers
Read on…: Busting BunkersThere is quite a lot of talk these days about the possibility of Israel, either with or without American assistance, launching an attack on Iran to halt the further development of its nuclear programme. The trouble is that Israel may not have the weapons necessary to carry out a successful attack, but the US has quite the arsenal. And one…
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Compare and Contrast
Read on…: Compare and Contrastxkcd reminds us that not all infographics need to be complex to tell a tale.
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Delivery Routes
Read on…: Delivery RoutesSunday in the New York Times, an article on bicycle delivery had an accompanying infographic. It detailed the dinner route of the article’s main individual. The piece is an interesting use of small multiples to provide a timeline of a route, while each new delivery maintains the old paths for reference. And from a data perspective, I found it good…
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One Size Does Not Fit All
Read on…: One Size Does Not Fit AllThe subject matter of this piece is out of my area of expertise, but should you be in the UK and looking at women’s fashion, apparently not all listed sizes are the same. This piece by Anna Powell-Smith takes as an input a woman’s size measurements and then best fits them to the known sizes by several major brands by…