Tag: information design
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Do Not Look at the Sun—I looked at the Sun
With eclipse glasses. This week saw a solar eclipse race across the surface of the Earth, from the high Arctic past the British Isles and the Atlantic coast of France and then right through the Iberian Peninsula. But that meant here on the East Coast of North America we could observe a sliver of the…
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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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Steamy Sauna
This weekend was a hot and steamy one in Philadelphia. And so this morning colour me not at all surprised when I read in the BBC that the oceans hit a record high in July. The article included a few graphics, one being a map of European soil moisture—spoiler, Europe’s dry. And I am certain…
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There’s Nambia
Happy Friday, all. We made it. Like the staffer at Foggy Bottom, we made it. (With a little help from our friends AI.) Earlier this week I wrote about the U.S. State Department’s map on American aid to Africa and how that map really stole the show. Unfortunately, the map was largely empty except for…
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Shangr-AI La
Last week Google announced its newest feature for Google Earth: the ability to use AI to create layers of images atop actual satellite images of Earth. Less than 24 hours later, Google abandoned those plans. We already have enough problems with the written word and the spoken word and the broadcast word, did we really…
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But What About Nambia?
I was going to post about this Friday, but left it for today. We need to talk about this map. First, why so many colours? Each country is clearly separated from the other, and the best rationale for so many colours here would have been if the countries shared a border and you ran the…
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Global Integration. The Bad Kind.
I was hoping to post this yesterday, but as you will see momentarily, it is very much still a work-in-progress. Earlier this week, Ukraine sank an Iranian freighter in the Caspian Sea—a pugnacious though innocuous sounding sentence. Of course, Ukraine battles Russia in its eastern oblasts whilst Iran battles the United States and Israel in…
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Smoke Here, Smoke There, Smoke Was (Almost) Everywhere
Friday I wrote about an interactive air quality web application I designed for my website after seeing a similar type of dynamically generated graphic in my local rag, the Philadelphia Inquirer. I did not have a lot of time to finish the project, and so it lacked the planned overview page, where I intended to…
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Is It Always Smoky in Philadelphia?
Yesterday I wrote about a Philadelphia Inquirer article, which included an interactive display showing different monitoring stations around the Philadelphia area cataloguing just how bad the Minnesota/Canadian wildfire smoke is in the region. I noted during my piece that it was unclear if the little bars were actually recording the AQI values or just a…