Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Andy Murray
A changeup from the political coverage, here we have sportsball! And by sportsball I mean tennis, if you did not get that from today’s post title. Andy Murray won the ATP World Tour finals, and with it won the number one seed in tennis, displacing Novak Djokovic. Nothing super fancy going on here, just a line […]
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How Healthy Is It?
Read on…: How Healthy Is It?Happy Friday after the election. Now that we have had our fill on sweets and bitters, we probably need to move towards a more balanced, more moderate diet. A couple of months ago the New York Times put together this scatter plot from the difference between public and nutritionist opinion on whether certain common foods are […]
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Trumpland vs. Clintonopolis
Read on…: Trumpland vs. ClintonopolisI was not sure if I wanted to file this under either my humourous Friday posts or my regular weekday posts, but I ultimately decided to go with the weekly postings. Why? It’s simply a different way of visualising the election results, by separating the two camps into two separate Americas. One is the geography […]
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Boston Beer Company
Read on…: Boston Beer CompanyBoston Beer Company is the parent company of Sam Adams, which is definitely one of those beers I imbibe when I visit Boston. But, as one of the larger craft brewers in the United States, it finds itself under immense competition. This article from Bloomberg examines the situation the brewery finds itself in from a share […]
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The Sorting Hat
Read on…: The Sorting HatWell the election is finally over. And since last week I used my Friday post to talk about something serious, I apologise for backtracking just a wee bit to go back to the election. This summer I had a discussion with one of the designers I worked with at the time, Ciana Frenze. We were […]
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Detroit’s Housing Market
Read on…: Detroit’s Housing MarketA few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal published a graphic that I thought could use some work. I like line charts, and I think line charts with two or three lines that overlap can be legible. But when I see five in five colours in a small space…well not so much. So I spent […]
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Election Day
Read on…: Election DayWell this is it. Well at least for you American readers of this blog. It’s Election Day. If you had told me that this is what it would come to almost a year and a half ago, I would have laughed. But it did. And now it comes down to all of us to vote, unless […]