Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Trump Fires Comey
I 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. There is a lot more…
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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 the 50% mark in the…
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Vive la France
Read on…: Vive la FranceEmmanuel Macron won the French presidential election yesterday. So Guess what we have a graphic or two of this week? If you guessed Mongolian puppies, you were wrong. Thursday afternoon the Wall Street Journal—they seem to really be upping their game of late—published an article breaking down the connection between a Le Pen support in the first round and unemployment. For me,…
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Maintaining Your Photo Library
Read on…: Maintaining Your Photo LibraryWell yesterday sucked. But at least today is Friday. Also Cinco de Mayo. And so in addition to trying to find some mezcal tomorrow—anybody know a good spot in Philly?—we can wrap this week up with something on the humourous side. My mobile is a few years old now and I’ve been taking lots of the photos the last few…
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Here We Go Again
Read on…: Here We Go AgainWell as of last night, we are having yet another vote on AHCA, better known as Trumpcare. I will not get into the details of the changes, but basically it can be summed up as waivers for Obamacare regulations. And as of last night, $8 billion over five years to cover those at high-risk. What about after five years? What…
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Why the Civil War?
Read on…: Why the Civil War?Yesterday, President Trump asked why there had been no discussion about the causes of the Civil War. No, that is not a joke. Well, Mr. President, turns out that there has been quite a bit of discussion over the last few years. And the broad consensus? Note the above, with the darker shaded counties representing those with greater percentages of the…
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The Typography of Dubai
Read on…: The Typography of DubaiInformation design takes many forms. True, in this blog I focus mostly on graphics, but signage is another important form. And the keys to signage are iconography and typography. So today we are going to take a look at some news in the typography front. Specifically, the introduction of a new typeface for Dubai designed by Nadine Chahine and Microsoft.…
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Where Creativity Goes to Die
Read on…: Where Creativity Goes to DieI know I spent yesterday on the NFL Draft and that a lot of you would regard that as the lighthearted piece for the week. But trust me, here in Philly, it’s not so much. Just walk three blocks west from my flat. So today we have another piece from This Is Indexed that looks at the creative process. And…