Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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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…
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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, are still looking for employment.…
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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 continental shelf where the seafloor…