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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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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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This is what a corporation looks like..
… 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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CorpWatch API lauch!
For the past several months, Greg and I have been working on project to scrape corporate subsidiary ownership relations from Securities Exchange Commission filings. The first part of the project launched today! So now you can pull down company names … Continue reading
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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Oil Networks, Advertising, Imaginary Data?
I found an interesting Chevron advertisement inside the back cover of the July 2007 issue of Harper’s magazine. Captioned “There are 193 countries in the world. None of them are energy independent.” it depicts an open notebook with clippings of … Continue reading
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MAPLight takes on congress
This month Berkley-based non-profit MAPLight.org expanded their coverage of the relationships between interest groups, legislators and votes to include data for US Congress. MAPLight.org for Congress combines all campaign contributions to U.S. legislators with legislators’ votes on every bill, using … Continue reading
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