Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Life Expectancy in the US and All Its States
Happy Monday, all. If this week’s news cycle cooperates, I am going to try and catch up on some things I have seen over the last several weeks that got bumped because of, well, Trump usually. Today we start with a piece on life expectancy from FiveThirtyEight. The piece begins with a standard choropleth to […]
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Where in the World Is North Korea?
Read on…: Where in the World Is North Korea?Donald Trump and I have one thing in common today. Boy are we both glad today is finally Friday—what a week. So in that vein, let us keep it semi-light today with a piece from the New York Times that I saw earlier this week. Before we share the screenshot, however, I should point out […]
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Brexit and the British General Election
Read on…: Brexit and the British General ElectionOn 8 June, Britons will go to the polls in a general election that Prime Minister Theresa May called to increase her parliamentary majority. The United Kingdom faces a number of issues—I am looking at you housing and the NHS for starters—but Brexit is on the minds of a lot of people. That makes sense, […]
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North Korea’s Latest Missile Test
Read on…: North Korea’s Latest Missile TestIf you missed it—and these days that is entirely possible—over the weekend, North Korea tested yet another missile. It did land very far away as it fell just off the coast of North Korea near Russia. But it did travel far enough away to be of concern. Why? Well, this print graphic from the New York Times […]
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Comey Contradictions
Read on…: Comey ContradictionsLast week was crazy, am I right? But one thing that made complete sense was President Trump’s rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey. And to prove just how much of a logical, straight-line reasoning there was we have this graphic from Sunday’s edition of the New York Times. Okay, so maybe that is not […]
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Obsessions
Read on…: ObsessionsCan we all agree that it was just a long week? Time to find some funny. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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The US Census Bureau
Read on…: The US Census BureauThere is no graphic today. Why? Because I want to illustrate a point that a lot of the work I and others in the information design world depends upon data. After all it puts the data in data visualisation. But yesterday the director of the US Census Bureau resigned because the Trump administration would not […]
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Trump Fires Comey
Read on…: Trump Fires ComeyI miss the days when I could design a weekly content strategy. Well, at least sometimes I would design a weekly content strategy. Nowadays I find that what I want to do is often trumped by news out of Washington and the administration. And that news is the abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. […]
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Could Marine Le Pen Have Won?
Read on…: Could Marine Le Pen Have Won?Well not likely—it was going to be tough regardless. Today’s piece is also from the Wall Street Journal and it was posted Saturday, the day before the election. It used a Sankey diagram to explore the support that Le Pen would have needed to draw from every candidate in the first round to get over […]