10,000 Words: Word cloud analysis of 2008 DNC Speeches
Friday, 29 August 2008, 06:38
A word cloud analysis of the speeches by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Al Gore and Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
TampaBay.com: New Web site shines light on sales in 220 neighborhoods
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:32
"The [St Petersburg Times] has just launched a Web service called Neighborhood Watch in which you can pick through more than 100,000 home sales from the past four or five years. The Times' computer guru Matt Waite has done a great service by categorizing home sales, updated weekly from county appraisers offices, into 186 neighborhoods in Pinellas County and 35 neighborhoods in Pasco County."
NYTimes.com: A History of World Records - Interactive Graphic
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 06:23
Interactive charts that show "how world records in Summer Olympic events have fallen (or risen) in the past century. Scales have been adjusted so percentage changes are comparable, and, to show how certain records compare to each other, speed is sometimes plotted instead of time. "
FlowingData: 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 07:34
Flowing Data presents some alternatives to the hideous pie chart…
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 13:32
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"I took all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like "editor", "seeks" and "self-starter") and built a tagcloud out of the rest. Here’s what it looks like…" (via Mark Hamilton)
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 09:52
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"Here is a quick screen capture of the [tag] cloud showing which keywords were mentioned most often [in the Mitchell Report on the use of steroids in baseball."
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 09:26
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Barry Bonds’ career home run total visualised and compared to other players.
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 10:17
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Danny Sanchez: "Smashing Magazine has produced an excellent list of some of the best data visualization examples on the Web today … Examine each of these visualizations closely because you’re looking at the first step in the future of your news site
Monday, 30 July 2007, 16:19
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A visualisation of the link structure of Wikipedia.
Putting the science into speeches
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 16:04
Political blogger Guido Fawkes this week boasted of having obtained a pirated PDF version of the Alastair Campbell Diaries.
The nice thing about having PDFs of large documents is that unlike reams of paper, they are searchable. This allowed the blogger’s “co-conspirators” to count 135 references to the word “fuck”.
A more systematic content analysis would make [...]
Friday, 29 June 2007, 22:38
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Very. Cool. Indeed. Facebook social network visualisation tool.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 17:58
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An impressive BusinessWeek chart shows what different age groups of US internet users are doing online (via Alfred Hermida).
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 06:28
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"Cloudalicious is a service that looks at how your blog has been bookmarked and tagged on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us, then plots it on a graph."
A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism.
