Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Pennsylvania Primary Night
Surprise, surprise. This morning we just take a quick little peak at some of the data visualisation from the Pennsylvania primary races yesterday. Nothing is terribly revolutionary, just well done from the Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times. But let’s start with my district, which was super exciting. Moving on. Each of the […]
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Tracking the Women Running for Office
Read on…: Tracking the Women Running for OfficeYesterday we talked about a static graphic from the New York Times that ran front and centre on the, well, front page. Whilst writing the piece, I recalled a piece from Politico that I have been lazily following, as in I bookmarked to write about another time. And suddenly today seemed as good as any […]
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Women Running for Congress
Read on…: Women Running for CongressIf you haven’t heard by now, this year is a US Congressional midterm election year meaning that eligible American citizens will be voting for their local representative and 1/3 of the states will be selecting their senator. But perhaps because yesterday was Mother’s Day in the States, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold […]
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The Short Arc of Pub Trivia Scores Bends Towards Victory
Read on…: The Short Arc of Pub Trivia Scores Bends Towards VictoryWell, at least over the last three weeks it did. In previous examples of my pub trivia team’s performance, we have had a lacklustre performance. But a few weeks we had an epic collapse. Having been in 4th place out of 10 in the penultimate round we ultimately finished in 8th out of 9—somebody left […]
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Kilauea Eruption
Read on…: Kilauea EruptionAs a kid, volcanoes fascinated me. The idea that the molten core of the Earth can bubble its way up to and then erupt from the cold crusty surface of the planet still fascinates me. Of course, volcanoes can also have drastic impacts on people, both at the grand scale of impacting global climate to […]
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Albert Pujols Isn’t Too Bad at That Baseball Thing
Read on…: Albert Pujols Isn’t Too Bad at That Baseball ThingOn Friday Albert Pujols joined the very elite club of baseball players who have managed 3000 hits in their career. Thankfully FiveThirtyEight covered it with a few graphics in an article that pointed out just how hard it is to do. Especially because, and I did not know this, Pujols did it in a not […]
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Rivers and Borders
Read on…: Rivers and BordersWe made it to Friday, everyone. Well done. And so today we have a neat little comic from xkcd that has a small map about something that looks like an oxbow lake. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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Open Door Cabinets
Read on…: Open Door CabinetsHere in the States we are accustomed to unstable governments—the Trump administration has set records for the most departures so early in its term. But the United Kingdom is not to be outdone as Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, resigned in response to an immigration scandal. She makes six the number of cabinet officials who […]
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Germany
Read on…: GermanyLast week Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, visited President Trump in Washington. This post comes from the Economist and, while not specifically about that trip, describes Germany in a few different metrics. Back in the day it would be what I called a country-specific datagraphic. That is, it shows metrics not necessarily connected to each […]