IBM Research recently released Many Bills, a new companion project to their wildly successful Many Eyes visualization tool set. Many... View Article
Continue readingObligatory word cloud of opening remarks at White House Health Care Summit
Obama’s opening remarks Alexander’s opening remarks (created at Wordle and based on transcripts here).
Continue readingStreamgraph of Obama’s speech at Health Care Summit
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Continue readingServices, Resources and Tools for Mapping Data
Long ago, putting together a map of data points would be the sole domain of a skilled GIS practitioner employing... View Article
Continue readingChart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization
TargetPoint’s VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry recently gave this entertaining and enlightening talk at DC Ignite. It’s only... View Article
Continue reading2009 in Capitol Words + Colors
CapitolWords.org is a Sunlight Foundation site that “visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record, giving you an... View Article
Continue readingTreeCovery – Synchronized Dual Treemap for Exploring Recovery Act Data
A demo of an interesting student project from the University of Maryland, based on Recovery.gov data. (via)
Continue readingUK Data Gets Visualized / Data Activism
In what has been billed as data activism, several members of the data visualization community have united to help make... View Article
Continue readingVisualizing Twitter’s Political Zeitgeist
Back in mid-November, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the kickoff of Medialab Prado’s Visualizar ’09 event... View Article
Continue readingFriday Fun: How Fast Can Congress Read? (cap and trade)
At the time of creating this silly video and applet, there were 190,427 words in H.R. 2998, the American Clean... View Article
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