Tag: data visualisation

  • Alaskan (im)Permafrost

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    I woke up this morning and before breakfast I opened the door to bring in today’s edition of the New York Times. I enjoy reading the paper, or at least a few articles, over breakfast (and more often than not preparing a post for here at Coffeespoons.me). Some of the best days are when I…

  • North Korea’s Missile Programme

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    Another week, another batch of news and posturing from North Korea. So I was delighted to see last week a post from Politico exploring the history of the North Korean missile programme with data visualisation. This kind of maps are my favourite for these types of stories. So often people get locked into this idea…

  • Labour Marches On (into Tory Housing?)

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    We have a nice little piece from the Economist today, a look at the electoral majority for London-area constituencies and how their housing prices may begin to draw out priced-out Labour votes from London proper. What I really like from the design side is the flip of the traditional choropleth density. In other words, we normally…

  • Man vs. Shark vs. Marlin vs. Every Other Animal

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    About two weeks ago, Michael Phelps raced a shark. What will they not do for television ratings? The Economist took the basic premise and then had an insightful piece about the speed of animals compared to their size. The whole notion of animals get faster the larger they get. Well, to a point, the Economist…

  • Shifting Temperatures

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    This past weekend, I came upon a neat little graphic in the New York Times supporting an article about the impact of climate change on temperatures. The article basically lays out the argument that summers are getting hotter. And as a cold-weather person, that is dreadful news. But the good news is the graphic was…

  • Blue Dog Democrats

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    Last week I mentioned that it appeared Politico was running with articles featuring data visualisation. Just this morning I stumbled upon another article, this one about the Blue Dog Democrats. For those that do not know, Blue Dogs are basically a more conservative Democrat and were the remnants of the Democratic south. But in 2010,…

  • Comparing the US Healthcare System to the World

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    Brendan Barry
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    Spoiler, we don’t look so great. In this piece from the Guardian, we have one of my favourite types of charts. But, the piece begins with a chart I wonder about. We have a timeline of countries creating universal healthcare coverage, according to the WHO definition—of which there are only 32 countries. But we then plot…

  • Brexit’s Impact on Irish Shipping

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today’s post is, I think, the first time I’ve featured the Politico on my blog. Politico is, I confess, a regular part of my daily media diet. But I never thought of it as a great publication for data visualisation. Maybe that is changing? Anyway, today’s post highlights an article on how the Irish shipping/logistics industry…

  • Bus Transit in Philadelphia

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    Brendan Barry
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    I have lived in Philadelphia for almost ten months now and that time can be split into two different residences. For the first, I took the El to and from Centre City. For the second, I walk to and from work. I look for living spaces near transit lines. In Chicago I took the El…

  • Stabby Stabby Sexy Sexy Stabby Stabby

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, all. This past Sunday Series Seven of Game of Thrones began. And, no spoilers here, but it basically served as an episode to set the table for this series and its plot lines. But this piece from the Washington Post does a good job of summarising the deaths in the show over the…