Last week I presented the first part of my chart on the story of K2 ascents, that is, the ascents of one of the toughest and most respected mountains in the world. I promised a part 2 and here it is. In this second part I focus more on the temporal trends I could find [...]
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(Note: I had originally planned to write one single post out of this, but I realized it was too long to digest. So here is the first part. The rest will come soon. Stay tuned!) K2 is a mighty mountain. Attractive, respected, and dreadful. Normally people think of Everest as the toughest mountain just because [...]
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The Heritage Foundation together with the Wall Street Journal has recently published the last report on the Index of Economic Freedom. The index captures in a series of factors like: “freedoms of movement for labor, capital, and goods, and an absolute absence of coercion or constraint of economic liberty, etc.” the degree of economic freedom [...]
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Some weeks ago Robert Kosara posted in his EagerEyes a visualization made with Tableau with the intent to understand the swing states in the US elections. His post generated quite a lot of reactions. Many people tried to propose alternative designs and suggested potential improvements. After few days, I tried to create my own interactive [...]
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Inspired by some recent government interventions on the Italian public school and the consequent large development of protests all around the country I have designed few charts to see if I can better understand the issue from the data and communicate some results. Background I have used the data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation [...]
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Some time ago I watched on TV an extraordinary documentary about the last Italian expedition on summer 2007 to the marvelous K2, the famous Himalayan mountain, and amazed by the extraordinary stories around it I started searching for some additional info about it. For those of you who know nothing about it will suffice to [...]
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