Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Missing Planets
In science news, we turn to graphics about planets and things. Specifically we are talking about exoplanets, i.e. planets that exist outside our solar system. Keep in mind that we have only been able to detect exoplanets since the 1990s. Prior to then, how rare was our system with all our planets? It could have […]
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Disc Space
Read on…: Disc SpaceOne of my current projects is consolidating and organising all my genealogy files spread across multiple devices and drives into one central location. So I’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking at file sizes and things. And that is why this piece from xkcd made me laugh. Happy Friday, all. Credit for the […]
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Trump-won Counties Are Winning
Read on…: Trump-won Counties Are WinningYesterday we looked at how China and the European Union are planning their tariff/trade war retaliation to target Trump voters. Today let’s take a look at how those voters are doing as this article from Bloom does. The article is not terribly complicated. We have four choropleth maps at the county level. Two of the maps isolate Trump-won […]
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Trade War Retaliation
Read on…: Trade War RetaliationAbout a week and a half ago the Economist published an article about the retaliatory actions of the European Union and China against the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Of course last week we had a theme of sorts with lineages and ancestry. So this week, back to the fun stuff. What makes today’s […]
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I Have to Explain This a Lot…
Read on…: I Have to Explain This a Lot……so we’ll just put it here. Thanks to xkcd. But in all seriousness I had to describe this just the other day. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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The Great Migration Map
Read on…: The Great Migration MapYesterday in a post about Angela’s forced journey from Africa to Jamestown I mentioned that the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Bay just one year later in 1620. From 1620 until 1640 approximately 20,000 people left England and other centres like Leiden in the Netherlands for New England. Unlike places like Jamestown that were founded primarily […]
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The Chrysanthemum Throne
Read on…: The Chrysanthemum ThroneToday we move from the Iron Throne of Westeros (Game of Thrones) to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan. Emperor Akihito abdicated his throne in favour of his son Naruhito. Fascinatingly, because Japanese monarchs are not allowed to abdicate, the Japanese parliament had to pass a law allowing Akihito to do just that. It was also a […]
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Who Bettors Think Will Sit Upon the Iron Throne
Read on…: Who Bettors Think Will Sit Upon the Iron ThroneLast night was the third episode of the final series of Game of Thrones and thus marked its midway point. I shall save you from any spoilers, but I thought we could do a lighter post to start the week. This comes from the Economist and simply plots the characters and their implied probability of […]