Tag: maps

  • Urban Homicide

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    Today we look at a really nice piece from the Washington Post on urban homicide. It combines big, full-width images that use interactivity to promote exploration of data. But as you can see in the screenshot below, the designers took care to highlight a few key stories. Just in case the reader does not want…

  • The Zika Virus

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    The Zika virus is the new health scare. But beyond that, what is it? Well the AFP put together this explainer graphic. Credit for the piece goes to John Saeki.

  • Blizzard of 2016 Snowfall Totals

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    Brendan Barry
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    You may have heard that the East Coast received a wee bit of snow. Here is the snowfall map from the Wall Street Journal. I can report that my family received 30 inches. Which makes sense, because they live somewhere near here. That’s a lot of snow. Credit for the piece goes to the Wall…

  • More on the Muslim Split in the Middle East

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    Yesterday we looked at the Economist’s work on breaking down the Sunni and Shia split throughout the Middle East. Let’s take a look at that again today, especially since the world’s largest Muslim nation dealt with a terror attack overnight. That’s right, Indonesia is actually the world’s largest Muslim country and it is also largely…

  • The Muslim Split in the Middle East

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    Brendan Barry
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    Turning away from selfies and returning to the upbeat world of the Middle East, today we look at a graphic from the Economist that breaks down the Middle East into the Sunni and Shia sects. See anything that looks familiar? Do you know how Saudi Arabia and Iran are feuding at the moment? Well, take…

  • Nuclear Tests

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    Last night, in the States’ time at least, North Korea purportedly tested a hydrogen bomb. How does this differ from their previous tests? Well, those were all nuclear fission bombs, this is a nuclear fusion bomb. (Admittedly, I am simplifying a lot here.) Hydrogen bombs, the H-bomb, are more powerful and more efficient in that…

  • Syria’s Refugees

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    Brendan Barry
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    We go from one crisis to another, as we go back to Syria. This piece from Bloomberg is very nicely designed and is almost entirely in black and white. We often think that because computer, everything needs to be in a rainbow of shiny, shiny colours. But here we have places where the designers smartly…

  • Climate Change in Charts

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    Brendan Barry
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    So yesterday we reimagined a less-than-stellar BBC chart. Today, we look at a good chart from the BBC about climate change, timed to coincide with the start of the Paris climate talks. This comes from an article with six charts related to climate change, but it is the best in my mind. Nothing but nice…

  • A Royal Nation

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    You may recall a year and a half ago a post I wrote up about a New York Times piece looking at the fandoms of baseball in the United States. Well fresh off their hometown Royals’ World Series victory, the folks at the Kansas City Star revisited the graphic—driven by Facebook likes—to see if there…

  • Making Sense of the Syrian Civil War

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    Brendan Barry
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    Well, I mean trying to is this piece by the Washington Post. Included are several diagrams at key phases of the conflict that attempt to show how the various parties interacted with each other. Ultimately the key takeaway is that Syria is a mess and it is not getting any better. So let’s just add…