Tag: pie chart

  • Happy Valentine’s Day

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    Brendan Barry
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    To celebrate, here’s a cropping from an infographic about breakups. From a whole series of graphics about breakups. You can thank me with some dead and rotting flowers. Credit for the piece goes to Lee Byron.

  • The Future of Data Visualisation

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, everyone. According to xkcd, I am failing the future test. That is to say, by 2019, I will be unable to communicate data through infographics or create data visualisations. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Coffee Pie Charts

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    Brendan Barry
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    Fear not, this graphic makes about as much sense as the title. The concept is actually a worthwhile exploration of the variation in caffeine across cups of coffee from different cafes and coffee shops. But, this visualisation fails at showing it. Remember, pie charts show the piece amongst the whole. What is the whole in…

  • 16 Useless Infographics

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, everyone. Today’s post comes via colleagues of mine in London, who shared with me the Guardian’s selection of 16 useless infographics. They are shit infographics. Well, at least one is. Check them out and you’ll understand. Credit for the selection goes to Mona Chalabi. Credit for each infographic belongs to the infographic’s respective…

  • New Data Visualisation Forms

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    Brendan Barry
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    Monday was an odd day, both 1 April and the start of baseball. I had a tough decision to make: Do I post a serious baseball-related piece or a humourous April Fool’s Day one instead? If you recall, I went for the serious baseball option. But that leaves me with Friday, where I try to…

  • National Pi Day

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    Brendan Barry
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    Yesterday was National Pi Day. That’s Pi as in 3.14…not as in pie pie. Unless you celebrated Pi Day with pie. In which case, way to go, you. Me, I’m more traditional. I celebrated Pi Day with talk of pie charts. But at the Wonkblog over at the Washington Post, Sarah Kliff posted about several…

  • Sick Day

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    Brendan Barry
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    Apparently the flu is going around. Boston has a city wide health emergency on its account. So if you’re wondering what to do on a sick day, well I shall allow you in all my magnanimity to use a pie chart. As Randall Munroe did.  

  • Palestine

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    Brendan Barry
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    With Palestine admitted to the United Nations as a non-member observer state, the Middle East tensions between Israel and Palestine have reached a new level. Regardless, Palestine may now have access to international institutions and is closer to being a recognised, sovereign state. Toronto’s National Post published a large infographic looking at the state of…

  • Opening the Window

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    Brendan Barry
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    The Washington Post brings us a look at the mess that is our Congressional representatives buying and selling stocks affected by the legislation they write, discuss, and upon which they vote. None of the charts in this piece are of themselves particularly complex—we are looking at a pie chart after all—but they do come together…

  • Cracking Down on Unemployment Benefit Fraud (in Canada)

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    Brendan Barry
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    Nobody likes people cheating the unemployment system for benefits. Especially Canadians apparently. So this is a proposal to encourage the unemployed to start working. Credit for the piece goes to Steve Murray.