Tag: interactive design

  • Graduate Degrees

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    Brendan Barry
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    Many of us know the debt that comes along with undergraduate degrees. Some of you may still be paying yours down. But what about graduate degrees? A recent article from the Wall Street Journal examined the discrepancies between debt incurred in 2015–16 and the income earned two years later. The designers used dot plots for…

  • Peeping Map

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    Brendan Barry
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    Depending upon where you live, autumn presents us with a spectacular tapestry of colour with bright piercing yellows, soft warm oranges, and attention-grabbing reds all situated among still verdant green grasses and calming blue skies. But this technicolour dreamcoat that drapes the landscape disappears after only a few weeks. For those that chase the colour,…

  • Out with the New, In with the Old

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    Brendan Barry
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    After twenty years out of power, the Taliban in Afghanistan are back in power as the Afghan government collapsed spectacularly this past weekend. In most provinces and districts, government forces surrendered without firing a shot. And if you’re going to beat an army in the field, you generally need to, you know, fight if you…

  • You’re Not Crazy, It Is Getting Hotter

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    Brendan Barry
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    First, I should say that I don’t have a lot to say about this graphic because I went back to the source because I was interested in another city and I wanted to compare the two. In other words, expect a small graphic follow up to this maybe tomorrow. Anyways, over the last few years…

  • Can We Pop Our Political Bubbles?

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    Brendan Barry
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    It’s no secret that Americans—and likely at least Western communities more broadly—live in bubbles, one of which being our political bubbles. And so I want to thank one of my mates for sending me the link to this opinion piece about political bubbles from the New York Times. The piece is fairly short, but begins…

  • Choropleths…Again

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    Brendan Barry
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    Admittedly, I was trying to find a data set for a piece, but couldn’t find one. So instead for today’s post I’ll turn to something that’s been sitting in my bookmarks for a little while now. It’s a choropleth map from the US Census Bureau looking at population change between the censuses. The reason I…

  • The Armchair General…

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    Manager. Of the New England Patriots. As many of my long-term readers know, I am really only a one sport kind of guy. And that sport is baseball. American football, well, I’ve seen one match live and in person and it was…boring. But it’s a big deal in America. And this is the time of…

  • The Changing Colours of Rivers

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    Brendan Barry
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    No two rivers are the same, though they certainly can be similar. Rivers have their own ecosystems and when I was at school, I learned of the different classifications of rivers by the colour of their water: black, white, and clear. Broadly speaking, that just means the amount of sediment dissolved in the river’s water.…

  • Biden’s Biggest Pyramids

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    Brendan Barry
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    Yesterday we looked at an article from the Inquirer about the 2020 election and how Biden won because of increased margins in the suburbs. Specifically we looked at an interactive scatter plot. Today I want to talk a bit about another interactive graphic from the same article. This one is a map, but instead of…

  • Biden Won the Burbs

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    Brendan Barry
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    The thing with election results is that we don’t have the final numbers for a little while after Election Day. And that’s normal. There are a few things I want to look at in the coming weeks and months once my schedule eases up a bit. But for now, we can use this nice piece…