The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…
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Animated political contributions
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Presidential campaign stops mapped →
Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…
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Words used at the National Conventions
The elections season is in full swing, and the New York Times graphics…
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Amazon election map, based on book sales
Amazon used their book sales data to color a map red and blue.…
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Twitter Political Index measures feelings towards candidates
In partnership with social analytics service Topsy, Twitter launched a Political Index that…
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Network of political contributions →
The Wall Street Journal visualized major political contributions, according to the Federal Election…
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Political allegiance via wireless network SSIDs, mapped
Wireless network SSIDs in residential areas are typically left on default router names…
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Reverse engineering targeted emails from 2012 Campaign
After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…
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Agreement groups in the US Senate
PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…
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Where Campaign Spending is Going to
Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York…
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Who voted for Santorum and Romney
As a complement to Shan Carter’s exit poll dancing boxes, The New York…
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Slicing Obama’s 2013 budget proposal four ways
With Obama’s recent budget for next year proposed, Shan Carter et. al of…
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Compare presidential candidate fundraising
Presidential candidates have raised $186 million up to now, according to the Federal…
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Words used in SOTU and Republican presidential candidates in debates
Jonathan Corum for The New York Times examines word usage by President Barack…
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SOPA opposition surges
ProPublica has been tracking members of Congress who oppose and support SOPA. You…
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How the deficit got so big
The US continues to rack up more and more debt, with a deficit…
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Open government and Easter candy
Sunlight Foundation displays some key government numbers with Easter candy, because as you…
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Challenge: Spot the mistakes in the figures
During production of the 2011 USAID annual letter from Rajiv Shah, someone said…
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Thoughts on end of Data.gov
In a guest post for the guardian.co.uk Datablog, I thought out loud about…
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Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due to budget cuts
Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…