Tag: Wall Street Journal

  • A Fishy Popularity Contest

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    Pardon the title, but don’t mind the graphic. Sometimes ranking charts tell the story well. The Wall Street Journal has a graphic supporting a larger article about fish. And while I am not sure that I understand the reason behind the colours, they do make it quite clear that catfish is not nearly as popular…

  • Hudson River Tunnels

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    Brendan Barry
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    Readers of this blog know that I am a fan of rail travel. And in particular, how the rail system on the East Coast is brilliant when compared to anywhere else in the States. Unfortunately, the railway system on the East Coast is also old and in need of serious capital investment. The tunnels linking…

  • The Link Between Work and Transit

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    The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article about the link between work and access to transit. They included a graphic that looked at the link between the two. Credit for the piece goes to the Wall Street Journal graphics department.

  • Whence do US Retail Sales Come?

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today’s piece comes from the Wall Street Journal. It looks at US retail and foodservice spending through different types of stores. I take issue with a few things, firstly the tree map. Because it’s not really a tree map. Another thing I am not keen on is the comparison feature in the piece. The user…

  • Chinese Nuclear Submarine Navy

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    Brendan Barry
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    This weekend the Wall Street Journal published an article that combined my interest in data visualisation with my interest in naval ships. The article looks at the growth of the Chinese nuclear submarine programme. And alongside the article are maps, charts, illustrations, and a narrated video that support the written word. Credit for the piece…

  • Hitting a Baseball

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    Brendan Barry
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    Tonight is Game 5 of the National League Championship Series. For those of you who do not follow baseball, this is the semi-finals for the national championship called the World Series. Anyway, hitting a baseball is hard because you have so little reaction time. The Wall Street Journal has an article about how some baseball…

  • The State of Gay Marriage in the States

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    Brendan Barry
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    I have been fairly out of the loop of the news the last few weeks, but I did at least catch one of the headlines: gay marriage in the States is more legal than ever. Between Supreme Court stays and Appeals Court rulings, gay marriage is now legal in more than 50% of the country—at…

  • Cancelling the Mistral

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    Brendan Barry
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    In a piece of big news about Ukraine yesterday, the French government announced that it was halting the completion of the sale of two Mistral warships to Russia. The first such ship, the Sevastopol (yes, named after said city in Crimea), was due to be delivered in just over a month’s time. The two ships…

  • Where the Rebels are in Eastern Ukraine

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today’s piece is far from ground-breaking or even complex. Friday, the Wall Street Journal published this map to supplement an article about the unilateral ceasefire declared by President Poroshenko in Ukraine. The map highlights the areas effectively controlled by the rebels, the most important the unsecured border. Of course this is just a map as…

  • Diving an Upside Down Ferry Wreck

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    Brendan Barry
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    To get a better understanding of the difficulties facing the divers working on the wreck of the Sewol, the Wall Street Journal published this illustration. Credit for the piece goes to the Wall Street Journal’s graphics department.