Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: I’ve Got the Subtlest of Blues
As I prepared to reconnect and rejoin the world, I spent most of the weekend prior to full vaccination cleaning and clearing out my flat of things from the past 14 months. One thing I meant to do more with was printed pieces I saw in the New York Times. Interesting pages, front pages in particular, have been piling up…
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The Month That Lasted a Year
Read on…: The Month That Lasted a YearTwo Fridays ago I received my second dose of the vaccine. In other words, I’m fully vaccinated and can resume doing…things. Anything. And so this piece from xkcd seemed an appropriate way to wrap up what has been a horrible, no good, terrible year. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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It’s Warming Up
Read on…: It’s Warming UpAs many of my readers know, I prefer my weather cooler and summer is probably my least favourite season—weather wise at least. Appropriately, my vaccination will be kicking in just in time for a small, early season heatwave. Felt like an appropriate time to share this piece from Brian Brettschenider. It’s just an animated map showing where in the United…
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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 Boris Johnson made that decision.…
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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 got its limelight on Saturday…
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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, pitcher after pitcher seems to…
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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 reasons). The founding fathers did…