Tag: Vox

  • How to Better Alight an Aircraft

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    Alighting an aircraft is a time consuming pain in the arse. Probably number one for me, after security. Anyway, Vox looked at the slow boarding and alighting process and how to improve it. And why, most likely, airlines are not terribly interested in improving it. Hint, follow the money. Credit for the piece goes to Menkes…

  • White (Immigrant) People

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    This is an old map that saw the light of day a while back. Featured on Vox, the map supports the notion that some white people are whiter than other white people. The map explores immigrant populations. Using a map for spatial arrangement of integrated components, the data looks at immigrants’ ethnic origins, their workforce…

  • Looking at Languages

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    Languages can be fascinating things. And not necessarily just in Klingon. Vox has a post using 23 maps and graphics to look at language. As usual with these sorts of things, some are good. Others not so much. Credit for the highlighted piece goes to Minna Sundberg via Dylan Matthews.

  • The Evolution of Art

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    I work in the field of graphic design—or visual communications design for those of you younger whippersnappers. Regardless of what you call it, the field itself generally did not become a discipline until the early parts of the 20th century. Obviously, painters and illustrators were performing many of the tasks in the 19th century and…

  • Earnings by Education

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    Vox has a piece that uses a modified version of a box plot to compare earnings of individuals based upon their level of educational attainment. Credit for the piece goes to Danielle Kurtzleben.