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Immigration Lobbying Network
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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The Other Kind of Network Marketing
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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Angels of the Right – version 2.0
I’ve been working for the past several months to build AngelsOfTheRight.net a new interactive version of the conservative philanthropy network data from the Media Matters Conservative Transparency Project and other sources. The idea is to have an atlas where you … Continue reading
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Tracking the funding for Proposition 23
Guess who is pumping in the money to support CA Proposition 23 to roll back California’s global warming legislation? Yup, mostly its the companies that would be regulated when the law goes into effect. I’ve been working for the past … Continue reading
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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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