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I'm not even going to pretend that I'll post life updates here - I'm hopeless as far as that's concerned. However, there are a bunch of cool things that have been floating around my new office. Everyone here on the design team is really interested in data visualization - in other words, how can we draw a picture that accurately represents the raw data coming in, but gives us a better understanding of that data? Charts are a good start, but this stuff is SO much cooler.
What are people twittering about?
http://anorangeamerica.com/
How do people feel about the election?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/04/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_WORDTRAIN.html
The New York Times has the best data visualization team. Be sure to click on County Bubbles and then scroll back through the years to see how it changed this year.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
Cartograms are cool. See the US election map as never before:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
And finally, something a bit more visual rather than quite so data oriented. But it still tells an interesting story: newspaper front pages from Nov 5:
http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html
What are people twittering about?
http://anorangeamerica.com/
How do people feel about the election?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/04/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_WORDTRAIN.html
The New York Times has the best data visualization team. Be sure to click on County Bubbles and then scroll back through the years to see how it changed this year.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
Cartograms are cool. See the US election map as never before:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
And finally, something a bit more visual rather than quite so data oriented. But it still tells an interesting story: newspaper front pages from Nov 5:
http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html