Weird Blimp Comparisons

Date Sent: November 12, 2021

When I was making my BLIMPtwo site, I ended up looking at the Goodyear Blimp website, and found this very strange thing: Who decided to do this?!? Also, the thing it’s being compared to is NOT consistent; at one point it compares the pixel density to the previous blimp, but the Date of First Flight is compared to the date of the Wright Brothers first flight – which is a totally different kind of aircraft and notable because it’s the first heavier-than-air powered flight (whereas a blimp is notably lighter than air)....

Brexit Illustrated - Christoph Niemann

Date Sent: October 25, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/23/magazine/brexit-illustrated.html A NYT interactive story where he went to London and illustrated over photos he took to make a super compelling dispatch. This is what the opening page looks like:

Nightingale Data Visualization Magazine

Date Sent: October 18, 2021

I heard about this from FlowingData. It’s a magazine devoted to data visualization and it seems pretty cool. https://nightingaledvs.com/

The Gyllenhaal Experiment - The Pudding

How do you spell Gyllenhaal? I sure didn’t know. This is a fun thing: https://pudding.cool/2019/02/gyllenhaal/