Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Can We Pop Our Political Bubbles?
It’s no secret that Americans—and likely at least Western communities more broadly—live in bubbles, one of which being our political bubbles. And so I want to thank one of my mates for sending me the link to this opinion piece about political bubbles from the New York Times. The piece is fairly short, but begins […]
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A Visual History of the International Space Station
Read on…: A Visual History of the International Space StationWhen I was in high school, the United States would regularly spend space shuttles into orbit to help build this new thing: the International Space Station (ISS). In the aftermath of the Cold War, the nations of the world joined together to commit to building an orbital space station. There was of course a time […]
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Expansion Teams in Baseball
Read on…: Expansion Teams in BaseballI was not planning on posting this today, because I was—am?—still working on it. But there was some baseball news last night that prompted me to export what I had to try and get this live. For a little while now I’ve been wondering why a number of baseball stars, albeit in their later years, […]
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Indonesia’s Sunken Submarine
Read on…: Indonesia’s Sunken SubmarineA few years ago, I created a piece about the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan. For those that do not remember, back in 2017, the Argentine Navy Type 1700 submarine ARA San Juan disappeared on a voyage from Ushuaia to Mar del Plata. At the time, people thought it may have sunk over the […]
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Read on…: Lather, Rinse, RepeatLast Friday I received my first dose of the vaccine, and I’m not counting the time until my second and then the two weeks after that to let it take effect. It also means that the repetition can begin to end. Over at Indexed, Jessica Hagy sort of captured that idea in a single Venn […]
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The Super Short European Super League
Read on…: The Super Short European Super LeagueSunday night, news broke that a number of European football clubs were creating a rogue league, the European Super League. My British and European readers—and Americans who follow football—will know the names of Manchester United, Liverpool, AC Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid, and the others. To put this in perspective for my American readers, imagine the […]