Tag: maps

  • Nope, It’s Just Clouds in the Shapes of Birds and Planes.

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    Brendan Barry
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    Supporting an article about how the clouds are the last great hope for the climate change skeptics, the New York Times published an interesting infographic that looks at cloud cover and insolation, the amount of solar energy that irradiates the planet. The main feature is an animation of a year’s worth of cloud cover. The…

  • Merry F*%#-ing Christmas

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    The title is from perhaps my favourite Christmas song… But the song relates to this post because earlier this week the print design blog For Print Only featured my annual Christmas card. I typically design and print a card to mail (as in a physical copy through the postal service, none of that e-card non-sense) to…

  • Analysing the Urban Environment

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    Via the Guardian comes an interactive piece from researchers at MIT and the Technical University of Lisbon that allows users to examine urban environments to compare population, energy use, and building material intensity for a select set of 42 different cities. The screenshots below are of neighbourhoods in Philadelphia. Once the user has chosen an…

  • French Politics, Elections, and Data Visualisations.

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    Brendan Barry
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    The US is not the only country with elections in 2012. Actually quite a few other places have had them, will have them, or are in the midst of having them. The latter includes France, which had the first round of its presidential election earlier this week. To put it simply, France has a first…

  • North Korean Missile Technology (Or Lack Thereof)

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    Brendan Barry
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    North Korea wanted to launch a missile, but failed miserably in doing it. Richard Johnson at the National Post created an infographic, prior to the missile’s launch, that looked at what the North Koreans wanted to do.

  • Today is a Happy Happy Joy Joy Story

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    Brendan Barry
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    For the past two posts I focused on the sinking of the RMS Titanic, an historical event that has always been of some interest to me, but is not always the most uplifting of subjects. When in high-school, I once had an English teacher who took to heart our complaints that our literature selection was…

  • Setting the Stage for the Sinking of RMS Titanic

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    Brendan Barry
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    Saturday will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She struck an iceberg just before midnight—at the time the crew thought merely as a glancing blow—and within three hours she would be headed towards the seabed. By the time the survivors were all picked up, over 1500 people would die in…

  • Santorum Quits. Goodbye…and Thanks for all the Varicose Veins.

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    Brendan Barry
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    So Rick Santorum is now out of the race. Mitt Romney is basically now set to run against the President. But why should Santorum go out without an infographic looking back at the Republican primary race. (Since neither Newt nor Ron come even close to running the same race as Rick.) The New York Times…

  • I’m On a Quest

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    Brendan Barry
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    For those that may have missed it, earlier this week Google released its newest addition to its Google Maps product offering: the 8-bit Quest map. Never before has the world been seen in such high-resolution. And if you look close enough, you might even be able to spy some interesting features. Happy Monster Hunting Quest.

  • Chocolate All Over the World

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    Brendan Barry
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    There are a few things in this world that I really dislike. Two of them are coffee and chocolate. So this map from the Guardian, a map made of real melted chocolate, is not quite to my liking. While I can appreciate the concept behind it—regardless of the chocolate-ness—I am left to wonder if from…