Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Fixing Where 9/11 Happened
Today we have a quick piece, but one that I read at the weekend, you know, the 9/11 20th anniversary one. The article served as a quick summary of the day for those who either don’t know or don’t remember. After 20 years, there are a lot of people who have come of age in […]
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Mapping the Mullica Hill Tornado
Read on…: Mapping the Mullica Hill TornadoWhen the remnants of Hurricane Ida rolled through the Northeast two weeks ago, here in the Philadelphia region we saw catastrophic flooding from deluges west of the city and to the east we had a tornado outbreak in South Jersey. At a simplistic level we can attribute the differences in outcomes to the path of […]
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The Hexagons of Saturn
Read on…: The Hexagons of SaturnWell, it’s the end of another week. I’ll save the bigger posts I have planned for next week and instead end with this little astronomy/geometry gem from xkcd. It takes a look at Saturn’s polar storm that takes the shape of a hexagon, not a circle or anything else. Credit for the piece goes to […]
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Protecting New Jersey’s Back Bay Communities
Read on…: Protecting New Jersey’s Back Bay CommunitiesWe’re back and there’s a lot to touch on this week. But first, as a prelude to some of the Hurricane Ida coverage, I wanted to briefly point our attention to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer from about two or three weeks before Ida struck. The article focused on the US Army Corps of […]
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Spread of the Caldor Wildfire
Read on…: Spread of the Caldor WildfireI’ve been searching to see if I could find a better motion graphic of this, alas not. I saw a post on Instagram from the Washington Post that featured a timelapse video or graphic of the spread of the Caldor Wildfire. The Caldor Wildfire presently rages southwest of Lake Tahoe and has now forced the […]
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What’s in a Corporate Name?
Read on…: What’s in a Corporate Name?Last Thursday I wrote about the Wagner Group, an off-the-books semi-private army the Kremlin uses wage war where plausible deniability is desired. During that piece I mentioned Blackwater, one of the more infamous American private security contractor firms. The day before I had seen a tweet, this tweet, where Samantha Stokes created a matrix to […]