Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: The Ebola Outbreak in the Congo
Ebola, 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 […]
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The Tory Leadership Race: The Favourite and All the Also Rans
Read on…: The Tory Leadership Race: The Favourite and All the Also RansThis piece was published Monday, so it’s one round out of date, but it still holds true. It looks at the betting odds of each of the candidates looking to enter No. 10 Downing Street. And yeah, it’s going to be Boris. The thing that strikes me as odd about this piece however, is note […]
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The Tory Leadership Process
Read on…: The Tory Leadership ProcessToday is another day in the Tory leadership election that will eventually see approximately 120,000 members of the Conservative Party electing the next prime minister of the 66,000,000 people living in the United Kingdom. The remaining candidates need at least 33 votes from MPs to move on. Those and/or the last place candidate will be […]
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Studying Will Be the Death of Me
Read on…: Studying Will Be the Death of MeAt least in certain fields. Happy Thursday all. For me, however, it’s more of a Friday. I am on holiday the next several days, so until I resume posting mid-next week, I will leave you with an xkcd graphic that looks at how what you study can kill you. I think all my economist colleagues […]
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Tariffs Are a Tax
Read on…: Tariffs Are a TaxThis piece from the New York Times isn’t really even a graphic. It’s a factette, or small fact. The article is about how tariffs are raising the price of certain goods, in this case a bicycle. Tariffs do not add money to the US Treasury, they are instead an additional price paid by US consumers […]
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Tornado Alley Spread East
Read on…: Tornado Alley Spread EastLast week the Philadelphia area experienced a mini tornado outbreak with three straight days of watches and warnings. Of course further west in the traditional Tornado Alley, far more storms of far greater intensity were wreaking havoc. But with tornado warnings going off every few minutes just outside the city of Philadelphia, it was hard […]
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The Rise of the Tropic(al Plant)s
Read on…: The Rise of the Tropic(al Plant)sLast week I had three different discussions with people about some of the impact of climate change upon the United States. However, what did not really come up in those conversations was the environmental changes set to befall the United States. And by environment, I explicitly mean how the flora of the US will change. […]