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Oil spill amounts in perspective
On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, designer Chris Harmon puts the amount of spilled oil into perspective in this video (below). It’s mostly simplified facts and figures,...
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Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor: [W]e need to change the way that we collectively think about data, so that it is not a new oil, but instead a new kind of resource entirely. For...
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Oil fires in Iraq seen from above
Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA Earth Observatory notes: On August 17, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired an image (above) of dense smoke plumes...
View ArticlePen plotter used as storytelling device
Pen plotters slowly draw out a picture line-by-line, so when you watch a chart plot out, it shows up on the paper one piece at a time. Silfa Huttner and Duncan Geere’s use this unraveling “feature” in...
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Fake location signals from oil tankers avoiding oversight
The New York Times tracked oil tankers faking their location as they ignore sanctions but keep insurance that is contingent on following the sanctions: “It’s significant when you look at dollar terms,”...
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