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Immigration Lobbying Network

Posted on March 27, 2013 by admin

A great new interactive network viz showing the ties between bills and organizations lobbying U.S. Congress on the topic of immigration reform. . The blog post about it gives their methodology and descriptive analysis. Really great work by Alexander Furnas … Continue reading →

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Carbon at scale

Posted on December 11, 2012 by admin

From the making the intangible tangible dept. Some nice work from CarbonVisuals. I’m not usually that excited about 3D geo rendering stuff, but this is elegant, simple, and compelling. A single hour of NYC carbon emissions: Carbon emissions associated with … Continue reading →

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Pleasantly Perusing the Paper Pile with Pivots

Posted on October 24, 2012 by admin

A nice UI for browsing a database of academic papers: Marian Dörk’s PivotPaths. It arranges papers matching a search term along with a sort of linked tag-cloud of authors and other keywords for easy navigation. All the interaction is really … Continue reading →

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The Other Kind of Network Marketing

Posted on October 15, 2012 by admin

Oakland political economy journalist/blogger Darwin BondGraham has an interesting article about a court case that appears to reveal massive collusion between private equity firms to manipulate markets and cheat investors when doing leveraged buyouts (I think thats what “LBO” stands … Continue reading →

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50 nets of Grey

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

Just saw this really nice blog post at badhession.org explaining how to do Exponential Random Graph Modeling (ERGM) using a sexual-hookup network from the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. I do some work on some of the dynamics packages in statnet … Continue reading →

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Open Government Data

Posted on June 26, 2012 by admin

…the book Josh Tauber (the guy behind GovTrack) recently wrote a book on Open Government Data. I think the chapter where he walks through the process of scraping and building a visualization is great, this kind of thing should be … Continue reading →

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Plane Old Networks

Posted on June 22, 2012 by admin

This is a catchall post to collect together a number of interesting network images I’ve run across in the last few years. The common feature is that they are all networks that are based in or arise from geography or … Continue reading →

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Adventures with J. P. Morgan and Form 13F

Posted on May 19, 2012 by admin

Inspired in part by recent work for a client, I finally got around to pulling a long night to play with some Form 13F data from the SEC. This pdf image shows significant ownership relations for J. P. Morgan at … Continue reading →

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Are Your Cookies Colluding?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

I recently installed Mozilla’s Collusion add-on for Firefox. It maps out the set of information-sharing relationships between sites as you visit them and they install various 3rd-party-cookies to track your browsing history. Has a neat interactive network viz as a … Continue reading →

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NYT Network Narrative

Posted on February 18, 2012 by admin

The folks at the New York Times continue to produce awesome data visualisations for their stories. Recently they’ve been splitting production to produce both print (above) and online interactive versions (below) of their figures. This is great, because it makes … Continue reading →

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