Tag: interactive design

  • Choose Your Own Adventure. Greek Debt Crisis Style.

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    Brendan Barry
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    The Eurozone. Greece. What a complete mess. And that’s just what has happened. What about what’s next? If you are confused about how the debt crisis in Greece and the Eurozone will unfold, you are not alone. Thankfully, the Guardian has posted an infographic, more precisely an interactive flowchart, to help us sort out the…

  • How Much Do You Work?

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    Have you ever wondered if you’re working too much? Thanks to an interactive infographic from the BBC, now you can see whether or not you are. At least in comparison to the rest of the OECD. The user enters an average number of hours worked per week and then their total number of holidays (including…

  • Immigrating to Canada

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    The Globe and Mail has been working on a story about immigration to Canada because apparently not all immigrants come to America. The story has its section headers running down the side column of the page, like many other segmented stories you’ll see posted online these days, but also uses graphics to make and supplement…

  • How to Salvage a Ship

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    Brendan Barry
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    You might recall that back in January an Italian cruise ship sank after striking submerged rocks. In case you were wondering, the ship is still there. But the plan is to refloat the ship and then tow it to a harbour on the Italian mainland and scrap the ship. The Guardian put together a nice…

  • How an E-mail is Sent. (And No, I Don’t Mean by Pressing Send.)

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    Brendan Barry
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    Google is a big company. What do big companies do from time to time? Market themselves. And so this is a screenshot from a fun interactive infographic piece that has supplementals from text to photos to videos as Google explains how an e-mail is sent. All the while Google touts its green energy initiatives and…

  • Congratulations, College Grads. Now Pay Up.

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    Brendan Barry
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    It’s that time of year when young men and women step outside into the big, real world and realise just how much money they owe to various creditors. Yay. The problem, however, has continued to get worse for students. This interactive infographic by the New York Times explains just how so by comparing student debt…

  • The Cities of Champions

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    Brendan Barry
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    From Slate comes an interactive map of which cities have won what championships across the big four sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey). It plots the championships over time and allows the user to see just how dominant certain cities have been in certain sports. Credit for the piece goes to Chris Kirk.

  • Mariano Rivera

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    Brendan Barry
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    Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees is(was?) one of the best closers in baseball history. I’ll give him that. So when a freakish accident brought to an end his season—and possibly his career—the New York Times of course had an(other) infographic about his historic numbers. But I’m a Red Sox fan. And this whole…

  • Playing Politics

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    Brendan Barry
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    The election campaign for the presidency has begun in earnest. The President launched his official campaign over the weekend and Mitt Romney’s nomination is all but official. So what to do over the next six months? Lots of television adverts—thankfully I’m thinking of cutting my cable—and random events that shape public opinion. And, thanks to…

  • The Greeks Voted Sunday Too

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    Brendan Barry
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    Over at the Guardian, I was using this interactive piece from igraphics to follow the election results there. (It was a slight bit more interesting than following the French presidential election, because everybody knew Sarkozy was going to lose.) Credit for the piece goes to igraphics, a Greek data visualisation outfit.