Tag: data visualisation

  • Who Has Won the Tour de France

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    Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France over the weekend; he is the first Briton to do so since the Tour began in 1903. (But to be more accurate, Wiggins was born to an Australian man and English mother in Belgium.) Naturally the BBC covered this topic in an infographic focusing on the nationality of…

  • 2012 Olympics: What Makes a Winner (and Will the UK Be One)?

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    The Olympics are coming, the Olympics are coming. (As if you didn’t know.) In a rare moment of seeing my work outside of my company’s paywall, I can post a few infographics I have created for the 2012 Summer Games in London. The series looks at a few different non-Olympic variables like GDP per capita…

  • England and Wales: 500k More People Than Expected

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    Census data fascinates me from a data visualisation perspective; one can look at it so many different ways. Last week I looked at some of the Slovakian census data on the Carpatho-Rusyns that live in the northeastern mountains of Slovakia. But yesterday, the British Office of National Statistics released the results from their census of…

  • How Fat Are You?

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    The BBC is letting you see how fat you are. They take inputs of age, weight, gender, and then your country of residence to compute your BMI and compare that across multiple countries for which the data exists. It compares you to your national average and then provides a country whose average best fits your…

  • Rusyns of Slovakia

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    The Slovakian government has published the results from its 2011 census. The census looked at many things, including nationality and language. This should allow the government in Bratislava to better fund and support the ethnic minorities in Slovakia. Of course, some of my ancestors were one of the small ethnic minorities in Slovakia. Ergo, I…

  • It’s Been Hot

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    In case you missed it, the weather the past few weeks has been hot across much of the United States. Last week the Washington Post published an infographic on temperatures in the District of Columbia. As it turns out, it has been hot. But it appears that in mid-June a few years ago, the temperature…

  • Blowing Things Up (Or Shooting Them Down)

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    After an odd two short weeks—imagine two weeks with each only having a Monday and a Friday—we (in the royal sense of I) are back to the routine. So what better way than to look at American awesomeness in blowing things up. Through air strikes launched from US aircraft carriers. This graphic comes from the…

  • Crossing the Detroit River (Panic in Detroit)

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    The National Post’s business section, branded separately as the Financial Post, posted a comment about a proposed bridge that would span the Detroit River and add a third major crossing to the Detroit–Windsor area. The comment used a graphic to explain one of the key points of the story, that early 21st century traffic projections…

  • The Conservative Supreme Court

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    From last week’s New York Times, a look at the Supreme Court by age and political leanings. They’ve gotten a lot more conservative.

  • Cancer

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    From the Sydney Morning Herald, we have a link to an interactive infographic published by the Cancer Council of Australia, a non-profit that seeks to reduce the impact of cancer upon Australia. It is not the most graphical by way of charts, but offers the user “playful” interactions with statistics to better inform him or…