Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Baby, It’ Hot Outside Pt 2
Yesterday we looked at Billy Penn’s graphics about the cooler stations and I mentioned a few ways the graphic could be improved. So last night I created a graphic where I explored the limited scope of the data, but also showing how low the temperatures were, relative to the air temperature outside, using weather data […]
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Baby, It’s Hot Outside
Read on…: Baby, It’s Hot OutsideThose of you living on the East Coast, specifically the Mid-Atlantic, know that presently the weather is quite warm outside. As in levels of dangerous heat and humidity. Personally, your author has not left his flat in a few days now because it is so bad. Alas, not everyone has access to air conditioning in […]
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The Sartorial Trump
Read on…: The Sartorial TrumpHappy Friday, all. We made it to the end of the week. Though if you are like me, i.e. living on the East Coast, welcome to Hell. As in so hot and humid. So last month President Trump visited the United Kingdom on a state visit. He drew attention to himself not just because of […]
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Notre Dame Almost Did Collapse
Read on…: Notre Dame Almost Did CollapseBack in April the famed Notre Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire and its roof and spire spectacularly collapsed. At the time I looked at a few different pieces, including two from the New York Times, that explored the spread of the fire. Several months later the Times has just published a look into how […]
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British English vs. Irish English
Read on…: British English vs. Irish EnglishThe United Kingdom is known for having a large number of accents in a—compared to the United States—relatively small space. But then you add in Ireland and you have an entirely new level of linguistic diversity. Josh Katz, who several years ago made waves for his work on the differences in the States, completed some […]
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The Ebola Outbreak in the Congo
Read on…: The Ebola Outbreak in the CongoEbola, which killed 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014 (which I covered in a couple of different posts), is back and this time ravaging the Congo region, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The BBC published an article looking at the outbreak, which at 1,400 deaths is still far short of the […]
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Or Just Don’t Be a Dick
Read on…: Or Just Don’t Be a DickLong before I worked as a designer, I was a busboy. After that I was a dishwasher. After that I was a barista. Then I became a designer. This graphic from Indexed resonated with me, because, yeah, at a more basic level, don’t fuck with your servers. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica […]
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Put Your Phone Down
Read on…: Put Your Phone DownThis isn’t really a graphic so much as it is an x-ray photograph. But I also can’t get it out of my head. We all know that mobile phones has changed the way we live. But now we have evidence that our use of them is changing us physically. Young people are growing horns or […]