Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Israel’s Palestine Trilemma
Read on…: Israel’s Palestine TrilemmaIn what feels like forever ago, I wrote about the trilemma facing the British government as it related to Brexit. Brexit presented Westminster with three choices, of which they could only make two as all three were, together, impossible. Once made, those two choices determined the outcome of Brexit. For better or worse, Prime Minister […]
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Delco vs Chesco
Read on…: Delco vs ChescoOne of the things in the pop culture these days is an HBO show called Mare of Easttown. For those that haven’t heard of it, probably my more international audience, it’s a crime drama set in the near suburbs of Philadelphia, a placed called Delaware County that locals simply call Delco. Last Saturday, the show […]
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Baseball’s Injury Problem
Read on…: Baseball’s Injury ProblemLast week, Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic wrote an article examining the recent spate of injuries in Major League Baseball. For those interested in the sport, the article is well worth the read. For the unfamiliar, baseball played only about 1/3 of the number of games as usual last year due to Covid-19. This year, […]
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2020 Census Apportionment
Read on…: 2020 Census ApportionmentEvery ten years the United States conducts a census of the entire population living within the United States. My genealogy self uses the federal census as the backbone of my research. But that’s not what it’s really there for. No, it exists to count the people to apportion representation at the federal level (among other […]
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Allergies in the Time of Covid
Read on…: Allergies in the Time of CovidIf all goes according to plan, I should be receiving my second dose of Pfizer later this afternoon. Then it’s two more weeks until I’m fully vaccinated and ready to rejoin the world. But what kind of world will be rejoining? The allergy plagued one looking at the calendar. And that’s why this post from […]