Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Needle Time
Yesterday was maybe the last election day for the 2020 US General Election. (There are still a few US House seats yet to be called, most notably a contested race in upstate New York.) These were a pair of runoff elections in Georgia for the state’s two US Senate seats (one for a full, six-year […]
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Difficult Descendancy Charts
Read on…: Difficult Descendancy ChartsThe holiday break is over as your author has burned up all his remaining time for 2020 and so now we’re back to work. And that means attempting to return to a more frequent and regular posting schedule for Coffeespoons. I wanted to start with the death of Diego Maradona, a legendary Argentinian footballer. He […]
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But What About New Zealand?
Read on…: But What About New Zealand?It’s time for another Friday just for fun posting. I once worked with a guy who could draw a map of the United States or the world on a whiteboard incredibly accurately. He then left it in the break room for the office to try and label correctly. This is kind of that, but in […]
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Vaccinate Me, Baby, One More Time
Read on…: Vaccinate Me, Baby, One More TimeWith the rollout of the first vaccination programme in the United Kingdom, the BBC had a helpful comparison table stating the differences between the four primary options. It’s a small piece, but as I often say, we don’t necessarily need large and complex graphics. Since there are only four vaccines to compare and only a […]
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Warmer, Wetter Winters in the UK
Read on…: Warmer, Wetter Winters in the UKI remember hearing and reading stories as a child about the Thames in London freezing over and hosting winter festivals. Of course most of that happened during what we call the Little Ice Age, a period of below average temperatures during the 15th through the early 19th century. But those days are over. The UK’s […]
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Travelling the World
Read on…: Travelling the WorldAnd by world, I mean one-bedroom apartment. It’s another Friday, and so here’s a nice piece from Indexed and Jessica Hagy. It sums up rather well our worlds these days. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.
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Biden’s Biggest Pyramids
Read on…: Biden’s Biggest PyramidsYesterday we looked at an article from the Inquirer about the 2020 election and how Biden won because of increased margins in the suburbs. Specifically we looked at an interactive scatter plot. Today I want to talk a bit about another interactive graphic from the same article. This one is a map, but instead of […]
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Biden Won the Burbs
Read on…: Biden Won the BurbsThe thing with election results is that we don’t have the final numbers for a little while after Election Day. And that’s normal. There are a few things I want to look at in the coming weeks and months once my schedule eases up a bit. But for now, we can use this nice piece […]