Archive for the ‘News Media’ Category
137 Years of Popular Science
In: Culture| Maps| News Media| 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
In: Culture| Interactive| News Media
15 Feb 2010
Guardian Zeitgeist
In: Interactive| News Media
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
In: Interactive| Maps| News Media| Politics
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| Reference
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.
The Naughts
In: Culture| Humor| News Media
4 Jan 2010A table of important things, time-relevant things, and stuff we’ve already forgotten about. Thanks to Nathan Sweet for passing it on.
Digg Year
In: Culture| Interactive| News Media
15 Dec 2009View the top Diggs for any day using the calendar selector in the middle. Nicely done.
If you haven’t seen them before, the real-time Digg Stack and Swarm are very cool as well.
Obama Tracker
26 Oct 2009An odd little tool – it’s a timeline of major economic, domestic policy, and foreign policy events and developments. It’s not clear to me what use the bars are. Perhaps a calendar would have been better?
Who Knew?
30 Sep 2009It turns out the Economist has a series of very well produced explanatory videographics on a variety of economic and political topics:
Poor Header
In: News Media
23 Sep 2009The newspaper doesn’t always do that great a job of interpreting statistics. It appears someone in the graphics department forgot that the 2009 number was only for part of the event (or thought the footnote was sufficient). To be fair, according to this article, attendance was indeed up this year.
Google News Timeline
In: Interactive| News Media
22 Sep 2009Browse visually through the news of time period (month, day, year) Click on “add more queries” to control the content sources displayed. Filter by date, or do a search. Unfortunately only goes back to 2005.
Suburbified New York
In: Culture| Maps| News Media
15 Sep 2009“Based on the New York Times ‘Living In‘ columns from the past ten years, this map uses color-coding to represent publication dates and provides a list of common phrases that describe the locations.” The phrases are pretty entertaining.
NYT News Classifier
In: Interactive| News Media
15 Sep 2009Uses “elastic lists” to find articles. Much better than the normal search
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