Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: We’re All Just Palm Trees and Patio Furniture in the Wind
For all my American readers, I hope you all enjoyed their Labour Day holiday. For the rest of you, today is just a Tuesday. Unless you live in the Bahamas, then today is just another nightmarish day as Hurricane Dorian continues his assault on the islands. The storm will be one for the record books when […]
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Childhood Video Games: You Can Never Go Home
Read on…: Childhood Video Games: You Can Never Go HomeWell, we all made it to Friday. And for those of us here in the States, our bank holiday weekend starts at some point this afternoon. Consequently, here is a post from xkcd that basically describes my childhood and when I would draw the layouts to linear scrolling video game landscapes for Mario. Admittedly, it […]
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Hong Kong Identity
Read on…: Hong Kong IdentityOne of the things I have been following closely the last few months has been the protests in Hong Kong. The city is one of China’s few Special Administrative Regions—basically the former British colony of Hong Kong and the former Portuguese colony of Macau, two cities bordering mainland China and separated by the Pearl River estuary. […]
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Pub Trivia Scores
Read on…: Pub Trivia ScoresSo today we have pub trivia scores. It’s been a little while since I’ve posted from my data recording of my Wednesday night’s team trivia pub scores. For the very few of us who know what this means, here you go. Essentially, our ability to score points on music in the last round remains pretty […]
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The Amazon Burns
Read on…: The Amazon BurnsThe G7 conference in France wrapped up yesterday and they announced an aid package for Brazil. Why? Because satellite data from both Brazil and the United States points to a rash of fires devastating the Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest carbon sink, or sometimes known as the lungs of the Earth. I have not had […]
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Hog Wild
Read on…: Hog WildSo admittedly this post should have been up last week, but I liked the lunar cycle one too much. But today is Friday and who cares. We made it to the end of the week. In the wake of the shootings last week, someone on Twitter posed the question: Legit question for rural Americans – […]
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A Very Loud Tube
Read on…: A Very Loud TubeAs all my readers probably know, I love London. And in loving London, I love the Tube and the Oyster Card and all that goes along with Transport for London. But, I have noticed that sometimes when I take the Underground, there are segments where it gets a bit loud, especially with the windows open. […]
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Hotter Muggier Faster
Read on…: Hotter Muggier FasterLast week we looked at a few posts that showed the future impact of climate change at both a global and US-level scale. In the midst of last week and those articles, the Washington Post looked backwards at the past century or so to identify how quickly the US has changed. Spoiler: some places are […]