Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Metropolises of Murder
Quite a few things to look at this week. But I want to start with something that caught my attention last Friday. The Economist produced this graphic about the top-50 cities by the always pleasant metric of homicide. I bring it up because of the oft mentioned capital of carnage here in America: Chicago. (To […]
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New Flags
Read on…: New FlagsWith all this talk of new countries and political alignments. This piece from xkcd seemed appropriate for this Friday. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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The Timeline of Leaving the European Union
Read on…: The Timeline of Leaving the European UnionSo yesterday was Article 50 Day and several British media companies published graphics about the historic event. I wanted to focus on this piece from the Economist, which is a timeline of the events leading up to Article 50. But more importantly, it includes the polling data for Remain or Leave along the length of […]
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The Structure of Europe
Read on…: The Structure of EuropeWell today’s the day. Earlier this morning (East Coast time) the British government notified the European Council that it invoked Article 50 and is withdrawing from the European Union. So what precisely does that mean? Well, it means the structure of the ties binding Europe will be altered. How could it not when one of […]
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One Insurer Counties
Read on…: One Insurer CountiesLet’s go back in time briefly to last week and the whole Obamacare thing. It’s not perfect and could be improved. I stridently believe that what the administration proposed was worse. But this article from Vox does highlight one of the things that could be improved—making more choices available to consumers. And they make the point […]
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What Does Europe Want from Brexit?
Read on…: What Does Europe Want from Brexit?Sorry about last week, everyone. I had some trouble with the database powering the blog here. Great week for things to go down, right? Well, either way, we’re back and it’s not like the news is stopping. This week? Brexit’s back, baby. I’m never using the word “baby” again on this blog. I have been […]
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How Good Does Blue Taste?
Read on…: How Good Does Blue Taste?My apologies, everyone, I have been having technical difficulties this week. (Of all weeks, right?) Anyway, it’s Friday. We can save the 24 million fewer Americans insured under Trumpcare until next week, right? Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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It’s Warm Out Here Isn’t It?
Read on…: It’s Warm Out Here Isn’t It?I could have covered the pieces on Gorsuch or the budget—and we will get to those—but I wanted to cover some data released by the World Meteorological Organisation that puts 2016 as the warmest year on record. But that’s cool, climate change is a hoax. The graphic comes from a BBC article covering the news, and […]
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I’m Wondering Where France Really Is
Read on…: I’m Wondering Where France Really IsToday’s post is not so much about a graphic per se, instead I read an article in the Guardian about how Boston’s public school system has decided to switch from the Mercator map projection system to the Gall-Peters projection system. The article is worth a read if only for the embedded clip of the episode […]
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Undocumented Irish Immigrants
Read on…: Undocumented Irish ImmigrantsYou know, I was trying to find a nice and funny graphic that related to the Irish for today since today is St. Patrick’s Day. But, I keep circling back to that piece I posted last year. Because, unfortunately, these are not terribly uplifting times. We make a great big deal about how we need […]