Tag: maps

  • Blue Dog Democrats

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week I mentioned that it appeared Politico was running with articles featuring data visualisation. Just this morning I stumbled upon another article, this one about the Blue Dog Democrats. For those that do not know, Blue Dogs are basically a more conservative Democrat and were the remnants of the Democratic south. But in 2010,…

  • Brexit’s Impact on Irish Shipping

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    Today’s post is, I think, the first time I’ve featured the Politico on my blog. Politico is, I confess, a regular part of my daily media diet. But I never thought of it as a great publication for data visualisation. Maybe that is changing? Anyway, today’s post highlights an article on how the Irish shipping/logistics industry…

  • Bus Transit in Philadelphia

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    Brendan Barry
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    I have lived in Philadelphia for almost ten months now and that time can be split into two different residences. For the first, I took the El to and from Centre City. For the second, I walk to and from work. I look for living spaces near transit lines. In Chicago I took the El…

  • Stabby Stabby Sexy Sexy Stabby Stabby

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, all. This past Sunday Series Seven of Game of Thrones began. And, no spoilers here, but it basically served as an episode to set the table for this series and its plot lines. But this piece from the Washington Post does a good job of summarising the deaths in the show over the…

  • London in Small Multiple Form

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    Brendan Barry
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    You all know that I love small multiples. And we have been seeing them more often as representations of the United States. But today we look at a small multiple map of London. The piece comes from the Economist and looks at the declining numbers of pubs in London. With the exception of the borough…

  • High-rise Living

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    Brendan Barry
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    I was reading my print edition of the Economist last night and found this graphic—screenshot from the online version—about the rising importance of skyscrapers in the urban landscape. The article was written after the Grenfell Tower inferno and looks at things that could be done to improve safety in high-rises. Naturally, I was reading this on…

  • Election Night Maps

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    Brendan Barry
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    My apologies for the radio silence, everybody. The day job has been super busy the last several weeks. I am hoping to return to the regular schedule next week. In the meantime, enjoy this from xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • The Insurance Exchanges

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    Brendan Barry
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    There is a lot to unpack about last Thursday and Sunday. But before we dive into that, a little story from the New York Times that caught my eye from Friday. The map shows the counties in the United States where there is one health insurer and no health insurer. Further on in the piece…

  • Where Trump Has Travelled

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    Brendan Barry
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    Okay, not entirely. But Bloomberg put together a solid series of graphics tracking not the travels of Donald Trump, but his private aircraft. But that information can serve as a rough proxy for Trump’s travels. But the data is not complete—Russia is missing from the map though he has visited the country for business. Credit for…

  • The United States of Misspelled Werds

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    Brendan Barry
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    The National Spelling Bee was this week and Google produced a map of the words each state seeks the most help spelling goodly. Naturally, there was a misspelling in their own graphic—unfortunately I do not have an image of that, but trust me they misspelled ninety as nintey in Maryland. Wisconsin, you need help. Credit…