Category Archives: frontpage

Delegate Co-memberships

Posted on June 21, 2010 by skyebend

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..

Posted on May 10, 2010 by skyebend

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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The Contractor Food Web: Visualizing the flow of Recovery Act dollars to defense contractors

Posted on February 4, 2010 by skyebend

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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This is what a corporation looks like..

Posted on September 14, 2009 by skyebend

… from the perspective of its SEC filings Click here for a movie of the changes in corporate structure at Lehman Brothers from 2003-2008. Each dot is a subsidiary corporation and each line is a declared ownership relation.

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Digging into MAPLight.org’s Bill Endorsement Data

Posted on December 9, 2008 by skyebend

Dan Newman, director of the money in politics watchdog/transparency site MAPLight.org kindly shared some of their bill endorsement data for me to explore. In addition to providing an elegant interface for accessing California and U.S. Federal campaign contribution data and … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Political Contributions

Posted on December 2, 2008 by skyebend

I’m very interested in trying to figure out ways to map the political landscapes and power structures that are operating around us. I’d like to be able to see various organizations and political actors in the context of their allies, … Continue reading →

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