Tag: maps

  • High-rise Living

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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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    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…

  • Traffic Accidents in Philadelphia

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    Brendan Barry
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    I’m working on a set of stories and in the course of that research I came across this article from Philly.com exploring traffic accident in Philadelphia. The big draw for the piece is the heat map for Philadelphia. Of course at this scale the map is pretty much meaningless. Consequently you need to zoom in…

  • Where in the World Is North Korea?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Donald Trump and I have one thing in common today. Boy are we both glad today is finally Friday—what a week. So in that vein, let us keep it semi-light today with a piece from the New York Times that I saw earlier this week. Before we share the screenshot, however, I should point out…

  • North Korea’s Latest Missile Test

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    Brendan Barry
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    If you missed it—and these days that is entirely possible—over the weekend, North Korea tested yet another missile. It did land very far away as it fell just off the coast of North Korea near Russia. But it did travel far enough away to be of concern. Why? Well, this print graphic from the New York Times…

  • 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…

  • 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…