Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: In-law Trees
Happy Friday, all. I’ve been busy preparing for a trip to Boston next week where I’ll continue to research my family’s history. But family trees and generational relationships between cousins can be confusing. Over at xkcd, however, it turns out the in-law relationships are more confusing. I don’t think I blame him. Credit for the […]
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The Rise of Online Dating
Read on…: The Rise of Online DatingThis past weekend I cited this article from the Economist that looked at the rise of online dating as a way of couples meeting. There was some debate about which channels of interaction/attraction still worked or were prevalent. And it turns out that, in general, the online world is the world today. My problem with […]
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Big Bulls
Read on…: Big BullsLast Thursday, the US entered its longest bull market in history. And the New York Times covered the story on the front page, which makes this another episode of covering graphics when they land on the Times’ front page. Of course, last week was a big news week away from the economy and so it is […]
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Happy Friday
Read on…: Happy FridayWhat a week, right? Thankfully it is coming to an end as we look to begin another weekend. So let’s take a look at xkcd, who has thankfully provided us with a form of pie chart that shows percentages of sums of more than 100%. And you thought you should only use pie charts when […]
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Tracking the Charges and Convictions
Read on…: Tracking the Charges and ConvictionsIn case you missed it somehow, the President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, is now also an unnamed, unindicted criminal co-conspirator in a federal campaign election law case in New York to which his co-conspirator pled guilty. And you thought Obama’s tan suit was bad. The guilty plea by Michael […]
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The Global Middle Class
Read on…: The Global Middle ClassEven the Washington Post admits there sort of is no such thing, because standards vary across the world. But broadly speaking, you have enough for the essentials and then a little extra to spend discretionarily. The concept really allows us to instead benchmark global progress in development. Regardless, yesterday the Post published a calculator that allows […]
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Most Liveable Cities Ranking
Read on…: Most Liveable Cities RankingThere is nothing super sophisticated in these charts, but I love them all the same. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published its rankings of the world’s most liveable cities and this year Vienna knocked off Melbourne for top spot. But what about the rest of the list? Thankfully the Economist, a related company, put together […]
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Insider Tricks
Read on…: Insider TricksHuzzah. It’s another Friday and we made it. So today, courtesy of xkcd, we can look at some insider tricks for charting best practices. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.