For how much longer will the bragging rights of box-office receipts matter? When can we start using Facebook newsfeed data to predict box office takes?
Lane Kenworthy, a professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona, came up with these graphs to explain some research on inefficiencies in America’s health care system. I wish more graphs were this tidy and clear.
Found via Junkcharts.
Race, Guns and Attention »
there is a direct correlation between the racial makeup of a state and the amount of attention that state has paid to the story
Bitly does some awesome analysis of attention paid to the Trayvon Martin story.
By Matt Stiles
More fun with 1.usa.gov data »
This is awesome.
adamlaiacano is doing fantastic analysis of 1.USA.gov data:
I took another look through the 1.usa.gov data, this time to see if there is a difference in the distribution of browsers between the different top-level domains (nasa.gov, fbi.gov, weather.gov, etc.).
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It’s interesting to see that the usda, fda, and noaa websites have very similar distributions. It sort of makes sense that the same people will visit usda and fda websites, and I noticed at the hackathon that noaa is most popular in the Tornado Alley area. My next step is to mash the browser information with geographic data and see what happens.
Can’t wait to see what he comes up with!
(via measuredvoice)
If Web 2.0 was the moment when the collaborative promise of the internet seemed finally to be realised – with ordinary users creating instead of just consuming, on sites from Flickr to Facebook to Wikipedia – Web 3.0 is the moment they forget they’re doing it.
SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
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I like both of these definitions a lot.
We want to make the case that more openness is a good thing for everyone, including policymakers and public servants. There’s a strong current of ‘We need transparency so we can catch people with their pants down’ among open-government advocates… but I want to emphasize that it helps journalists tell the truth about great work being done just as easily as it allows them to tell the truth about poor work.
That’s me talking about Open San Diego in Dave Maass’s San Diego City Beat story, Light of day.
Interviewing over IM is the best.
Kamel Makhloufi developed a simple but powerful pixel diagram [flickr.com] that highlights the past human death toll during the Iraq war. Each pixel has a color, where blue stands for “friendly”, green represents “host”, orange are “civilians” and grey denotes “enemies”. The left diagram is ordered by category, whereas the right one lists the casualties by time.(via Pixelating the Casualties in Iraq - information aesthetics via Ginny Hunt)
Find your flight via visual interface
Super smart way to visualize flight search results.
Only old ladies answer the phone.
A pollster explains why the future of political polls is looking very dark indeed.
(via theeconomist)
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