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17 Nov 2016

A nice interactive map of daily sunlight.

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2016 Election Info

2 Nov 2016

I love how people will spend hours reading yelp to find the best tacos in town, searching for the cheapest flights for their next vacation, looking for costume accessories on etsy, comparing reviews of their next phone upgrade or amazon purchase, yet base their vote for leader of the free world on facebook rants and memes. The reviews are in. The information is available. Go read it. I will try to post some well designed site and tools to help below.

Vote411
Find personalized info on your voting locations, view down-ticket matchups, and any referendum items.

Ballotpedia

FiveThirtyEight
Want to know how the latest polls look? 538 has the most reliable analysis

Draw Your Own Electoral Map (CNN)
Try your own hand at allocating electoral votes.

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How You are Going to Die

In: Culture Interactive Source: Washington Post

4 Feb 2016

A beautiful interactive chart of causes of death according to age. (via Washingtonpost)

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Washington Wizards Shooting Viz

In: Innovative Interactive Sports

17 Feb 2015

Some beautiful visualizations of where each player shoots from, and is more successful (this is last year’s season, though)

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Interactive 2015 State of the Union Address

In: Interactive Politics

17 Feb 2015

Pretty wonky, but it’s a nice breakdown of content analysis.

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Average Income by DC Metro Stop

In: Interactive Maps Source: Washington Post

17 Feb 2015

An interested analysis, but not too surprising if you are already aware of DC income distributions. (via WashingtonPost blog article)

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American Middle Class

In: Employment Interactive Source: NYT

2 May 2014

So, how does America’s middle class compare to those around the world? Not as good as it used to.

It takes a second to absorb these charts, but they show how other countries’ middle class incomes have closed the gap on the USA from 1980 to 2010. Except for our top income brackets – they are still the richest of all.

The original article tries to explain parts of this trend.

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How Americans Die

In: Culture Interactive Science

30 Apr 2014

And annotated interactive narrative of about 20 charts on trends in death. This was done by Bloomberg, which has a number of these well done data mining narratives.

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Major League Baseball Team Preference

In: Culture Interactive Maps Sports

30 Apr 2014

Somewhat obvious, but fun to look at the details. The original NYT article points out some of the more contentious borders.

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Tedious Map of the Solar System

In: Interactive Maps Science

10 Mar 2014

Josh Worth created a horizontal map of the solar system using a scale of 1 pixel = diameter of moon. There’s a lot of nothing out there (but Josh does add some amusing commentary to help pass the time scrolling between planets).

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Map of All Things US Energy

In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Science

25 Feb 2014

Map of all kinds of energy related things: coal fields, mines, oil/gas pipelines/storage, electrical transmission lines, wind turbine potential, offshore windspeeds, solar potential, etc. You get the idea.

It’s not the smoothest operating interactive map I’ve ever seen (lots of delays in loading, etc) – but it works if you’re patient.

Thanks to Mr. Brown for sending me the link.

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Map of Preventable Diseases

In: Interactive Maps Science

28 Jan 2014

Plots outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by cheap and effective vaccines. (via)