Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Red Sox Starting Rotation: A Dumpster Fire in a Dumpster Fire Year
Baseball for the Red Sox starts on Friday. Am I glad baseball is back? Yes? I love the sport and will be glad that it’s back on the air to give me something to watch. But the But the way it’s being done boggles the mind. Here today I don’t want to get into the Covid, health, and labour relations…
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Consumer Payment Methods During the Corona Times
Read on…: Consumer Payment Methods During the Corona TimesOkay, so we’re going to post some more of my work today, but it’s not about cases and deaths. Instead, I took some data produced by my colleagues and thought that it could do for a small transformation from a table into a chart. The original table can be found in their report on consumer payment options during the Covid-19…
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A Map of Unequal Comparisons
Read on…: A Map of Unequal ComparisonsI’ve largely been busy creating and posting content on the Covid pandemic and its impact on the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware tristate area along with, by request, both Virginia, and Illinois, my former home. It leaves me very little time for blogging, and I really do not want this site to become a blog of my personal work. That’s…
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The Golden Ratio
Read on…: The Golden RatioToday is a Friday, an important point for those of us still in or largely in quarantine. So let’s try to ease into a more frequent posting with some humourous content from xkcd. It looks at everyone’s favourite golden ratio spiral and designers’ preferred ISO 216 for paper sizes. I mean I would love if I could consistently get my…
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Corona Curves
Read on…: Corona CurvesIt’s Friday. I’d normally say something like we’ve survived this far, but the fact of the matter is that thousands have not. But, still, let’s try to keep it a little light. So here’s something from xkcd about the shape of the various curve potentials for Covid-19. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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Comparing Covid-19 to Influenza
Read on…: Comparing Covid-19 to InfluenzaI want to share a small graphic I made yesterday evening. And I am being charitable with the term graphic. Really it is nothing more than a collection of organised factettes. But I have seen the footage of those protesting the lockdowns in various states, including Pennsylvania. To be clear, people can have different policy prescriptions to solve the pandemic.…