Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Rising Rate of US Drug Deaths
While today’s post is not an uplifting story, I did find it remarkable in its presentation. Nothing too fancy or revolutionary to be certain, but remarkable nonetheless. What was it? This morning when I picked up the Times there was a chart in black and red, above the fold, below the cover photo. The story […]
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Where Trump Has Travelled
Read on…: Where Trump Has TravelledOkay, not entirely. But Bloomberg put together a solid series of graphics tracking not the travels of Donald Trump, but his private aircraft. But that information can serve as a rough proxy for Trump’s travels. But the data is not complete—Russia is missing from the map though he has visited the country for business. Credit for […]
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The United States of Misspelled Werds
Read on…: The United States of Misspelled WerdsThe National Spelling Bee was this week and Google produced a map of the words each state seeks the most help spelling goodly. Naturally, there was a misspelling in their own graphic—unfortunately I do not have an image of that, but trust me they misspelled ninety as nintey in Maryland. Wisconsin, you need help. Credit […]
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Energy Production in Pennsylvania
Read on…: Energy Production in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania was the country’s first state to operate a nuclear power plant for electricity generation and is today the second-largest nuclear-generated electricity state after Illinois. But in recent years the triple threat of the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale natural gas boom, wind power subsidies, and solar power subsidies have hit the state’s nuclear industry hard. Consequently the […]
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Traffic Accidents in Philadelphia
Read on…: Traffic Accidents in PhiladelphiaI’m working on a set of stories and in the course of that research I came across this article from Philly.com exploring traffic accident in Philadelphia. The big draw for the piece is the heat map for Philadelphia. Of course at this scale the map is pretty much meaningless. Consequently you need to zoom in […]
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Let’s All Shake Hands
Read on…: Let’s All Shake HandsSo this isn’t exactly an infographic, but it’s still great because it let’s me links to sites with the video. It’s about Donald Trump’s handshakes. If you missed yesterday’s two between him and new French president, Emmanuel Macron, well you missed something. If you want to see the handshake, you can watch it in the […]
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Trump’s Polling
Read on…: Trump’s PollingMy battery is about to die this morning and I don’t have my charger so this is going to be a shorter piece than usual. But I wanted to look back on the 100 Day polling that the New York Times posted. It does paint an interesting picture of somebody so polarising that Trump is […]
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The World’s Fighter Jets
Read on…: The World’s Fighter JetsAs you know, I am a sucker for military-related things. So here we have a piece from the Wall Street Journal on the leading fighter jets of the world. If you have a bone to pick on which jets were included, please take that up with them and not me. The screenshot is from the […]