Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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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 Engineers proposal to protect the…
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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 evacuation of South Lake Tahoe,…
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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 help people remember just what…
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If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Cut Your Carbon Emissions Pt. II
Read on…: If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Cut Your Carbon Emissions Pt. IIA few weeks ago I wrote about the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report on climate change, which synthesised the last several years’ data. If you didn’t see that post, suffice it to say things are bad and getting worse. At the time I said I wanted to return to talk about a few more graphics…
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Sankey Shows Starters Sticking with Sticky Stuff
Read on…: Sankey Shows Starters Sticking with Sticky StuffI spent way more time trying to craft that title than I’d like to admit. Headline writing is not easy. Quick little piece today about Sankey diagrams. I love them. You often see them described as flow diagrams—this piece is in the article we’ll get to shortly—but they are more of a subset within a flow diagram. What sets Sankeys…