Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Baseball’s Injury Problem
Last 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…
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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 Indexed by Jessica Hagy made…
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Can We Pop Our Political Bubbles?
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 with an interactive piece that…
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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 before the ISS, and I…