Tag: data visualisation

  • Where the Polling Stands

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    Tomorrow is the big day: the general election in the United Kingdom. If, like me, you have been following the news over the last several weeks, you know it has been punctuated by…gaffes. And what was initially considered a certainty for Prime Minister Theresa May is, well, not so much. This graph of polling data…

  • Rising Rate of US Drug Deaths

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    While today’s post is not an uplifting story, I did find it remarkable in its presentation. Nothing too fancy or revolutionary to be certain, but remarkable nonetheless. What was it? This morning when I picked up the Times there was a chart in black and red, above the fold, below the cover photo. The story…

  • Where Trump Has Travelled

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    Brendan Barry
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    Okay, not entirely. But Bloomberg put together a solid series of graphics tracking not the travels of Donald Trump, but his private aircraft. But that information can serve as a rough proxy for Trump’s travels. But the data is not complete—Russia is missing from the map though he has visited the country for business. Credit for…

  • Energy Production in Pennsylvania

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    Brendan Barry
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    Pennsylvania was the country’s first state to operate a nuclear power plant for electricity generation and is today the second-largest nuclear-generated electricity state after Illinois. But in recent years the triple threat of the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale natural gas boom, wind power subsidies, and solar power subsidies have hit the state’s nuclear industry hard. Consequently the…

  • Traffic Accidents in Philadelphia

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    Brendan Barry
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    I’m working on a set of stories and in the course of that research I came across this article from Philly.com exploring traffic accident in Philadelphia. The big draw for the piece is the heat map for Philadelphia. Of course at this scale the map is pretty much meaningless. Consequently you need to zoom in…

  • Maps and Legends

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    Brendan Barry
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    First, great song by R.E.M. Second, you may recall a post last week where I shared some work by FiveThirtyEight about life expectancy. In particular I liked the set of small multiples. However, the New York Times just took what I liked and upped it a slight notch. Every small multiple set needs a legend…

  • Life Expectancy in the US and All Its States

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Monday, all. If this week’s news cycle cooperates, I am going to try and catch up on some things I have seen over the last several weeks that got bumped because of, well, Trump usually. Today we start with a piece on life expectancy from FiveThirtyEight. The piece begins with a standard choropleth to…

  • The Disappearing Urban Middle Class

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today we look at income in American cities and in particular the middle class disappearance. The Guardian published the graphics, but they originate with Metrocosm, LTDB at Brown, and IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System. So what are we looking at? Well, the big one is a set of small multiples of cities and their income breakdowns…

  • The US Census Bureau

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    Brendan Barry
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    There is no graphic today. Why? Because I want to illustrate a point that a lot of the work I and others in the information design world depends upon data. After all it puts the data in data visualisation. But yesterday the director of the US Census Bureau resigned because the Trump administration would not…

  • Could Marine Le Pen Have Won?

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    Brendan Barry
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    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…