Tag: information design

  • Mapping Hepatitis vs HIV

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    I don’t often write about maps, especially of the choropleth kind. In many cases I choose not to because so many of the maps are one-dimensional: how fast is x growing across the world; which is predominant across the world, y or z? So I was pleasantly surprised by the Economist yesterday when they published…

  • Elections in Mali

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    For those of you who did not know, the country of Mali held elections yesterday and results should be forthcoming. Those of you who regularly read or semi-frequently check my blog, you are likely familiar with the work I did covering the French-led intervention in Mali. I am a bit busy working on some other…

  • Scary Names

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    Happy Friday, everyone. Here’s a plot from xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Queue for the British Throne

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    So apparently a baby was born in London…as was another who is likely to become the future King of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland (not of England). But the British love their queues and so this infant will have to wait in line just like everyone else (in the royal line of succession). The…

  • Delivery Delays

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    Today’s graphic looks at the backlog of aircraft delivery, i.e. the manufacturing of civilian aircraft. Why? Because Boeing is attempting to increase production of its 787 Dreamliner. And this weekend I arrived in Chicago from Warsaw via a 787. This is a really nice piece from Thomson Reuters that looks at the manufacturing lines for…

  • Charting and Mapping Income Mobility

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    After two weeks out of the country, I come back and find early this morning (thanks, jet lag) an interactive article published by the New York Times on income mobility. What does that mean? From a medium side, a long narrative interspersed with charts and graphics with which the user can interact to uncover specific…

  • Chicago Covered in Ice

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    I should be returning to Chicago this weekend. And if I were returning 21,000 years ago, that would be I would have been returning to a massive ice sheet covering the city. Would have been way worse in Montreal, though. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Analysing and Using a Network Diagram

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    This network diagram from the New York Times looks at a community of doctors with respect to a prescription oncology drug. Colour is used to denote types of doctors while size denotes the volume of prescriptions for any oncology drug. Admittedly, I am not keen of the bubble effect placed on the circles. Those effects…

  • Pakistan’s Troubles

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    Brendan Barry
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    Pakistan has had a rough go of it of late. This map from the New York Times narrates, annotates, and illustrates just some of those problems. Credit for the piece goes to Timothy Wallace and Sergio Peçanha.

  • The Carpatho-Rusyns of Slovakia

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    If all is going according to plan, I should be somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains at this point, specifically in the Presov region of Slovakia. So as a reminder of just what that means, here is a (recycled) piece I created this time last year about the Carpatho-Rusyns (sometimes known as Ruthenians) living in Slovakia.…