Tag: charting
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Stack It Up
Normally I am not a fan of stacked bar charts. They do not allow users to easily compare the constituent elements of the stack. In spending a number of years working with economists I became familiar with decomposition charts, which help audiences understand what things contribute positively or negatively to, say, economic growth. But the…
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When Height Matters
I was reading an interesting article from Reuters this weekend about the disparities in wealth in the United States. The article included this interactive graphic, small multiples of line charts showing US household wealth from October 2024 through January 2026. At surface level we have a nice little graphic. We are looking at wealth across…
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Y Bother?
To be clear, I read this as a joke. But we can also use it as a learning opportunity, because I have certainly seen quite a bit of poor data visualisation out in the internet lands of late. Compounding the issue, a seemingly declining level of data visualisation comprehension amongst the consumers in magical computer…
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Tracking Measles in Pennsylvania
One project on which I have been working the last few weeks is an interactive data visualisation piece tracking the 2026 measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. A few years ago now I closely followed the COVID-19 pandemic, mapping it and charting it in a near daily series of datagraphics—to be clear, and this is a broad…
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Unemployment in America
On Tuesday I wrote about my new inflation tracker—I need a better, more marketable name for that. Well, as I was designing the inflation tracker, I concurrently designed an unemployment tracker to track, well, unemployment. And I figured if I shared the one, why not the share the other? Thus, my unemployment in America tracker…
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Will Infantino’s Own Goal Cost Him?
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has had a rough go of it of late. Turns out the world is not too enthused about the prospect known as Profit. He may have a strong right kick, but the world does not want to sacrifice the sport at Profit’s altar. At least not yet. And so Infantino’s plan,…
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My First Half of Music (Streams)
Because I am headed out of town for several days, today is basically this week’s Friday post—just for fun. Last week I looked at my musical tastes via the vinyl. Today I look at the digital streams of music. This is far less surprising and arguably more representative of my tastes more broadly. Unlike records,…
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My First Half of Music (Records)
Two Christmases ago, my mother gifted me a record player. Ever since I have been slowly buying records—and then listening to them. And over the last year I have been recording those record plays and with 2026 now half over, I decided to run the numbers and see where I am at. As context, my…
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A Dan Miller Coronation?
Six weeks ago I created a small interactive chart on the news that Wes Streeting, the then British health secretary, resigned in order to challenge Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party. Six weeks hence, Starmer has resigned. Lo and behold, my interactive graphic still works: British Governments of My…