Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Politics Moves Further to the Extremes
In case you were wondering, yes, Virginia, politics in the United States are becoming more polarised. Olympia Snowe, the moderate Republican senator from Maine, is not running for re-election. And so the Senate is left without one more centrist counterweight to an extreme. To try and show how extreme, this graphic from the New York Times plots how often senators…
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Fatal Passenger Train Derailment
Read on…: Fatal Passenger Train DerailmentSunday afternoon in Burlington, Canada, a VIA passenger train—think Canada’s version of Amtrak—derailed shortly after switching tracks. The two engineers in the locomotive and their trainee died in the accident, which is still under investigation. The National Post covered the story and included a few graphics to explain just what happened. Maps pointed out exactly where the train derailed. The…
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Examining the World’s Response to the Somalia Famine
Read on…: Examining the World’s Response to the Somalia FamineSomalia is beset by a bevy of problems; from an Islamist insurgency that holds great swathes of the south, to the de facto independent regions of Somaliland and Puntland in the north, to the pirates operating off the coast, to the barely functional government in Mogadishu that controls only sections of the capital through the backing of an African Union…
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How High-fashion Is Sourced
Read on…: How High-fashion Is SourcedFrom DHL and fashion designer Fyodor Golan comes an infographic-y video explaining how a high-fashion dress is sourced. via the Guardian
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Corporate Tax Rates
Read on…: Corporate Tax RatesPart of the State of the Union was about the administration’s plan to lower the corporate tax rate while closing loopholes and ending subsidies. The goal is to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 28% without losing revenue. Along with the New York Times article about the proposal the Times offers a graphic showing the amount of taxes…
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Tsunami Debris
Read on…: Tsunami DebrisWe are coming upon the date when a year ago an earthquake and its subsequent tsunami devastated Japan. As the wave rushed over land it ripped up and destroyed whole villages. Most of the debris remained scattered across the Japanese landscape, but as the water receded some was inevitably swept back out to sea. The International Pacific Research Center has…
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The Crisis in Syria
Read on…: The Crisis in SyriaThe crisis in Syria now resembles more of a civil war. The UN General Assembly has condemned the conflict and passed a resolution calling for Bashar al-Assad to step aside along with a host of other steps to resolve the conflict. However, nothing can happen until the Security Council agrees on a measure, which is still unlikely given the previous…