Tag: information design

  • Trump Leads the Pack

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    The day after the Canadian elections, let’s turn our gaze back upon the states via this Washington Post piece. How are the Republicans doing in their primaries? Yep, still the land of I can’t quite believe it. Credit for the piece goes to the Washington Post graphics department.

  • The Canadian Elections

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    Canada held an election yesterday. For your briefing on it, John Oliver did a great job on Last Week Tonight. But for the serious coverage, we have results. Here we have the results coverage by the National Post. It’s your standard choropleth coloured by the victor in each riding, or constituency. From a design side,…

  • Pumpkin Spice Friday

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    It’s Friday. It’s October. That means it’s time for pumpkin spice cocktails, courtesy of This Is Indexed. Gentrify, people. Gentrify. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.

  • The First Democratic Debate

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last month we looked at the Washington Post’s coverage of the second Republican Debate. For those unaware, the first Democratic Debate was held last night. And so it is only fair for us to look at the Post’s coverage of that event. Credit for the piece goes to Samuel Granados, Richard Johnson, Denise Lu, Ted Mellnik,…

  • The Safe List

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    Brendan Barry
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    Migrants and refugees continue to reach Europe. But some of those people can be sent back, depending upon their country of origin. The tricky part is that there is no common set of countries as this graphic from the Economist shows. In terms of design, we see nothing too elaborate here. This is really just…

  • New Job Trepidation

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    Brendan Barry
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    Some of my co-workers are taking me out for a few drinks as I started a new job at my company last month. It’s a lot of work and a lot of learning things I know little about. So this piece from This Is Indexed seems appropriate for this Friday. Credit for the piece goes…

  • The History and Future of Data Visualisation

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    Brendan Barry
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    From time to time in my job I hear the desire or want for more different types of charts. But in this piece by Nick Brown over on Medium, we can see that there are really only a few key forms and some are already terrible—here’s looking at you, pie charts. How new are some…

  • Unhappy Millennials

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    Brendan Barry
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    I attended a dinner on Monday where the topic of Millennials arose. While most of the evening is not germane to this post, I did recall Wait But Why’s piece on why Millennials are unhappy on the way back to my flat. So here you go, a look at the Millennials and why we are…

  • Expensive Wines Taste the Best…

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    Brendan Barry
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    But not for the reasons you might think. This video from Vox looks at the notion that expensive wines taste better. And it turns out they do. Sort of. In terms of the design of the piece, it uses some nice charts and motion graphics to make its point. Plus, it includes snippets from Sideways,…

  • Taking You All to School

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    Brendan Barry
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    Like the title said, it’s about time I took you all to school…by which I mean university scorecards from the US Department of Education. I used my alma mater, the University of the Arts, to show the design here. Basically you have several sections key to understanding a university from the student body to the…