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Angels of the Right v1.0
[download full map as pdf] I’m interested in making political structures visible. Trying to put those half-realized connections and linkages into a tangible form–a map that we can point to. I recently located an online database of conservative funding relationships … Continue reading
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Many Brands of Bubbly Bottles and Cans
… but only a few owning companies. Another great study and diagram of brand ownership relations by Philip Howard. …To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry we developed a cluster diagram to represent the number of soft drink … Continue reading
JoSS Visualization Symposium 2010
The Journal of Social Structure did a special online Visualization Symposium with peer-reviewed network visualizations. A good format, a great idea, and some nice viz examples. Hopefully next time there will be more submissions. I thought that this map of … Continue reading
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US Social Forum Topic Network
Michael Heaney and Fabio Rojas just released another great network map in a blog post. This one shows the co-mentions of topics (as coded by the researchers) appearing in the descriptions of panel discussions at the recently concluded 2010 US … Continue reading
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Delegate Co-memberships
A lovely organization co-membership network graph of the delegates to the 2008 party conventions. From Networking the Parties: A Comparative Study of Democratic and Republican Convention Delegates in 2008 (Pre-print. Seth Masket, Michael Heaney, Joanne Miller, and Dara Z. Strolovich). … Continue reading
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Caught in a bad hotel..
Political theater in the internet era. Who knew it could be so much fun? I like how the woman at the check-in desk cracks up when the singing starts…
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Talk at TransparencyCamp 2010
The Sunlight Foundation recently brought all of its grantees together so that each organization could learn more about what the others were working on. Since they funded the work on the CorpWatch API, I got to attend. They also invited … Continue reading
The Contractor Food Web: Visualizing the flow of Recovery Act dollars to defense contractors
Found a well-structured dataset on Recovery Act contracts at fedspending.org. Created a network map for the Awards funded by Department of Defense (except military departments) category. Also serves as a crude user interface to the data. Clicking on contractor nodes … Continue reading
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Feed & Seed
Phil Howard has built another corporate consolidation dataset, this one on ownership networks of seed distributors. [click for pdf version of network]
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New years entity resolutions
Just in case you think that entity resolution problems (matching up names appearing in multiple data sources, while not falsely assuming that everyone named “John Smith” is the same person) are purely an academic concern, I recently got an email … Continue reading
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