Tag: information design

  • Comey Contradictions

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week was crazy, am I right? But one thing that made complete sense was President Trump’s rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey. And to prove just how much of a logical, straight-line reasoning there was we have this graphic from Sunday’s edition of the New York Times. Okay, so maybe that is not…

  • Obsessions

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    Can we all agree that it was just a long week? Time to find some funny. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • 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…

  • Trump Fires Comey

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    Brendan Barry
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    I miss the days when I could design a weekly content strategy. Well, at least sometimes I would design a weekly content strategy. Nowadays I find that what I want to do is often trumped by news out of Washington and the administration. And that news is the abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey.…

  • 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…

  • Vive la France

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    Brendan Barry
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    Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election yesterday. So Guess what we have a graphic or two of this week? If you guessed Mongolian puppies, you were wrong. Thursday afternoon the Wall Street Journal—they seem to really be upping their game of late—published an article breaking down the connection between a Le Pen support in the first…

  • Maintaining Your Photo Library

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    Brendan Barry
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    Well yesterday sucked. But at least today is Friday. Also Cinco de Mayo. And so in addition to trying to find some mezcal tomorrow—anybody know a good spot in Philly?—we can wrap this week up with something on the humourous side. My mobile is a few years old now and I’ve been taking lots of…

  • Here We Go Again

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    Brendan Barry
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    Well as of last night, we are having yet another vote on AHCA, better known as Trumpcare. I will not get into the details of the changes, but basically it can be summed up as waivers for Obamacare regulations. And as of last night, $8 billion over five years to cover those at high-risk. What…

  • The US Airline Industry

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    Brendan Barry
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    Yesterday Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, testified to Congress about the airline industry. All of this just a few weeks after such a great week of press coverage. Of course, the last few weeks have also been a wee bit busy, so I was unable to post today’s piece. But with Munoz’s testimony…

  • Why the Civil War?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Yesterday, President Trump asked why there had been no discussion about the causes of the Civil War. No, that is not a joke. Well, Mr. President, turns out that there has been quite a bit of discussion over the last few years. And the broad consensus? Note the above, with the darker shaded counties representing those…