Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: It’ll Get Cooler Eventually
President Trump, on climate change. I mean, technically he’s correct. Eventually the universe will likely end with heat death as all the energy dissipates and stars die out and space becomes a truly empty, cold void. So it’ll get cooler, eventually. But what about right now? In one to three generations’ time? 30–90 years? Not […]
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Pretty Much My Life These Days
Read on…: Pretty Much My Life These DaysIt’s another Friday. Which means another work week come and gone. Most of my days now consist of Covid-related work. A couple of months ago, Memorial Day began the surge in Covid-19 cases. Hopefully people take it more seriously now, and everyone masks up and stays distant so that Labour Day does not become a […]
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Shipping Out of Boston
Read on…: Shipping Out of BostonMonday was the trade deadline for this year’s attempt at a baseball season. The Red Sox actively sold off parts of their roster. You may remember that just two years ago, the Red Sox won the World Series, the sport’s national championship. One would imagine that two years later, most of that championship calibre roster […]
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Wear a Mask
Read on…: Wear a MaskIt sounds so easy, but too many don’t do it. Yesterday, Agence France-Presse published an article about a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined the efficacy of the coronavirus’ airborne spread potential. The study centred on a bus trip in eastern China from January, before the widespread adoption of […]
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The More You Know
Read on…: The More You KnowIt’s Friday, everyone. And that was a week. And so on the lighter side, here is this work from xkcd about shooting stars. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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Pence’s Jobs Claim: Fact Checked
Read on…: Pence’s Jobs Claim: Fact CheckedI watched Vice President Prence’s convention speech last night. He made several claims, including one about the Trump administration creating 9.3 million jobs over the last three months. That’s a lot of jobs. So I wanted to check and see if that was true. It is. over the last three months, the administration has created […]