America’s Drinking Problem
Which is worse: a 20 ounce bottle of Sunkist soda, or a Breyer’s Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich? Hint: one has 6 times more sugar than the other.
Posts Tagged ‘visualization’
BP and the Top Kill: Live
Learn about BP’s latest strategy to stem the tide, and see how they’re seasoning their data to make it more palatable to the public.
Toast and a Hair-Do: Two Bits
Ever wonder how many sitcoms you can watch for a dime? Well, wonder no more.
Psychrometrics for the Rest of Us
You may never hear about the field of psychrometry, but believe me, you are intimately familiar with its effects. It’s with you in the shower, it’s the reason you sweat, and if you ignore it at home, it will make you very, very sorry.
Seven “Habbits” of Highly Distorted People
Tweet Meet the Habbits, strangely distorted humanoids that wear their environmental impact on their sleeve whole body. Rather than limiting themselves to just a carbon footprint, Habbits have a carbon head-print, hand-print, “bum”-print, etc. The relationship goes something like this: Height – Total Carbon Footprint Feet – Transport Hands – Home Energy Mouth – Water [...]
27 cubed
TweetI love it when someone visualizes data in a new way, and if it’s IRL (in real life) rather than on the computer screen, all the better. That’s the volume of one metric ton of carbon dioxide. 27 feet x 27 feet x 27 feet. Now, I just have to figure out a way to [...]
Eyjafjallajokull InfoVis
TweetAn ecometric roundup for everyone’s favorite smoke spewing Icelandic volcano. First off, a map from the New York Times showing the airport closures and ash coverage: You’ll notice that the Icelandic airport remains ironically open. I’d be remiss if I did not at least briefly cover the climate impacts of the current eruption. Traditionally, volcanic [...]
Graphic Design Should Not Be an Afterthought
TweetA couple of months ago, the Energy Circle blog covered a new product called PowerHouse Dynamics eMonitor. It’s a whole house electricity monitor that can measure and report on each individual circuit, giving the homeowner unprecedented levels of information on their home’s energy usage patterns. More data can mean more understanding and more control. But [...]
