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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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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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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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Health care lobbying networks
Valdis Krebs recently posted a nice viz of the health care lobbying network surrounding Max Baucus using data from LittleSis.org and the Center for Responsive Politics. Gives an interesting perspective on who might stand to benefit from the current proposals: … Continue reading
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Oilmoney Redux
The main conference on Social Network Analysis was is in San Diego this year, so I decided to make a trip down. Was nice to step away from the screen and see old and new faces from the far-flung research … Continue reading
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Digging into MAPLight.org’s Bill Endorsement Data
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
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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Network of ballot measure endorsements
It is election day! Fingers crossed…. ;-) Before today I was searching for various organizations’ endorsements of California ballot measures. Finally located some data, and was curious how it would appear as a network showing the organizations and the propositions … Continue reading
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