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7½ Steps to Successful Infographics
11 May 2010Excellent article by Sarah Slobin (who has worked for NYT, Fortune, CNN, WSJ, etc) on how to research and design your own work. (via)
Superb 2010 US Election Map
In: Interactive Maps News Media Politics Source: Washington Post Updated regularly
6 May 2010The Washington Post’s new “Post Politics” online section has an excellent map of elections (Senate, House, and Governor), all updated regularly. Click around for a while – there are a large number of filters, drill downs, and highlights to play with.
2009 News Coverage Filter
16 Mar 2010Pew Research has created an interactive filter of 2009 news coverage that graphs results by media outlet and topic. It’s a little confusing at first, but fun to play with. For example, below, you can compare Fox and NPRs coverage of several issues. Note: I had to disable Firefox’s ad-blocker to view it. (via)
137 Years of Popular Science
9 Mar 2010Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)
For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:
and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:
“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)
Olympic Tweets
15 Feb 2010
Guardian Zeitgeist
5 Feb 2010Another color coded graphic news aggregator. This one from the Guardian.
Obama Approval Ratings
20 Jan 2010Interactive timeline of approval since inauguration. Some dates are annotated. Apparently the Guardian used the Real Clear Politics rating (2nd chart), which is an average of many different polls – nice! And while we’re at it, USAToday’s Approval Tracker allows you to compare presidents’ ratings since Truman and is updated regularly.
2010 House Elections
8 Jan 2010The infamous election maps begin to spawn… This one includes fairly detailed analysis of the close races.
2009 Top News
In: News Media
4 Jan 2010Good Magazine presents a treemap of news coverage, colored by politics, culture, business, and “bad news”. Interestingly, Sociological Images notes that the data comes from the Pew Research Project’s Journalism.org, which presents a weekly report of media content – including additional breakdowns such as by media outlet.
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