sunfoundation: The Forest of Advocacy: Visualizations of Big Data Regarding Politics Can big data reveal hidden patterns of political contributions? A new initiative, The Forest of Advocacy [vispolitics.com], developed by what is described as “LazerLAB and the Northeastern Centers for Computational Social Science and Digital Humanities (NECSS/NEDH)”, aims to release a new visualization every week, from now on until the election.
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The Forest of Advocacy: Visualizations of Big Data Regarding Politics

Can big data reveal hidden patterns of political contributions? A new initiative, The Forest of Advocacy [vispolitics.com], developed by what is described as “LazerLAB and the Northeastern Centers for Computational Social Science and Digital Humanities (NECSS/NEDH)”, aims to release a new visualization every week, from now on until the election.
futurejournalismproject: Google Just Produced a MAD Visualization Mapping Arms Data, that is. It visualizes the imports and exports of small arms, light weapons, and ammunition across 250 states and territories between 1992 and 2010. Specifically: • Military weapons include artillery, mortars, machine guns (sub, light, and heavy), assault rifles, combat shotguns, and machine pistols. • Civilian arms consist of pistols, revolvers, sporting shotguns, sporting rifles (anything not rated as a military item including fully automatic weaponry). • Ammunition includes shotgun shells and small caliber ammo (anything below 14.5mm which isn’t fired from a shotgun). It was produced as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks, Forces in Opposition) Summit. Read more about it here. FJP: We particularly like its use of WebGL, which is a JavaScript API for rending interactive graphics. It’s alarming, illuminating, and pretty mesmerizing to play with. Image: Screenshot from the visualization.
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futurejournalismproject:

Google Just Produced a MAD Visualization

Mapping Arms Data, that is. It visualizes the imports and exports of small arms, light weapons, and ammunition across 250 states and territories between 1992 and 2010. Specifically:

• Military weapons include artillery, mortars, machine guns (sub, light, and heavy), assault rifles, combat shotguns, and machine pistols.

• Civilian arms consist of pistols, revolvers, sporting shotguns, sporting rifles (anything not rated as a military item including fully automatic weaponry).

• Ammunition includes shotgun shells and small caliber ammo (anything below 14.5mm which isn’t fired from a shotgun).

It was produced as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks, Forces in Opposition) Summit. Read more about it here.

FJP: We particularly like its use of WebGL, which is a JavaScript API for rending interactive graphics. It’s alarming, illuminating, and pretty mesmerizing to play with.

Image: Screenshot from the visualization.

paulkatcher: The New York Times’ Bits blog highlights Eric Fischer’s data visualizations showing the location of Twitter messages and Flickr photos. New York City is shown above, but there are other cool ones, such as maps of Europe and the entire United States.
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The New York Times’ Bits blog highlights Eric Fischer’s data visualizations showing the location of Twitter messages and Flickr photos. New York City is shown above, but there are other cool ones, such as maps of Europe and the entire United States.

sunfoundation: My Block NYC: Mapping The City With Users’ Videos A new video platform, My Block NYC, has one simple and amazing goal — to create a collective map of New York City using people’s videos. Launched on Tuesday, My Block NYC allows users to upload videos to a certain street. Users of the site can then filter videos not just geographically but by age, time of day and topic.
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sunfoundation:

My Block NYC: Mapping The City With Users’ Videos

A new video platform, My Block NYC, has one simple and amazing goal — to create a collective map of New York City using people’s videos.

Launched on Tuesday, My Block NYC allows users to upload videos to a certain street. Users of the site can then filter videos not just geographically but by age, time of day and topic.

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