Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Tracking the Charges and Convictions
In 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.
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The Sinking City of Jakarta
Read on…: The Sinking City of JakartaEveryone is probably familiar with Venice, slowly sinking below the Adriatic. But, did you know the city of Jakarta, Indonesia is also sinking? The BBC published an informative article about the city’s looming problem and the piece includes several nice graphics. The screenshot below is an interactive timeline of the amount of subsidence, or sinking, […]
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T Minus 12 Weeks
Read on…: T Minus 12 WeeksToday is Tuesday, 14 August. We are now 12 weeks away from the 2018 midterms. That is just three months away. Coverage will only intensify in the weeks to come, and you can be certain that if there are pieces worth noting, I will do that. But to mark the date I went with this choropleth […]
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Ohio 12th Results
Read on…: Ohio 12th ResultsLast week parts of Ohio voted for a special election in the 12th Congressional District. Historically it has been a solidly Republican district by margins in the double digits. However, last week Republicans barely managed to hold the seat by, at the latest count I saw, less than one percentage point. Why? Well, it turns […]