New York Times: Interactive Feature: Steve Jobs’s Patents
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:33
Very nice interactive feature providing links to documents, using a series of image carousels for navigation: "The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details…
BBC News: 3G mobile data network crowd-sourcing map by BBC News
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 12:51
"Last month the BBC invited people to download an app that would collate the 3G coverage their Android handsets were getting. The experiment aimed to offer a snapshot of coverage. 44,600 volunteers took part, providing testing firm Epitiro with …
New York Times: In Panama, Expanding the Shortcut Between the Seas
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 08:46
Moving beyond the traditional audio slideshow: this NY Times interactive about the expansion of the Panama Canal combines audio with panoramic photography.
ProPublica: How You Can Use Our ‘Opportunity Gap’ Project in Your Reporting
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 11:16
"Our news application makes it easy to point readers to profiles of specific schools or districts. Here’s our guide on how to use it, including instructions on how to share your findings from within the app and how to embed a special link to it …
Propublica: The Opportunity Gap
Friday, 1 July 2011, 11:57
An amazing project: ProPublica's investigation into access to advanced courses in US secondary education includes a database of schools allows users to log in with Facebook to look up their school. There are individual pages for each state, distri…
Texas Tribune: Interactive: Visualizing the Lege’s Proposed Texas Congressional Districts
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 08:21
"On [this map], congressional districts as they are currently drawn are to the left of the split; to the right of the split are the districts as redrawn by the Legislature. Click on a district to highlight it in yellow on both sides of the split, …
WSJ.com: WSJ Jet Tracker
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 11:58
"The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under …
WSJ.com: A Week on Foursquare
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 12:43
"We collected every check-in on location-sharing service Foursquare for a week starting at noon Eastern on Friday, Jan. 21 until noon on Friday Jan. 28. Foursquare, which provided the data, removed all material that could identify an individual us…
Texas Tribune: Texas Senate Redistricting Maps
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 21:59
Excellent interactive before/after redistricting maps.
New York Times: Death of Osama Bin Laden: How Significant a Moment?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 15:36
Ingenious interactive captures and visualises reader sentiment: "We asked readers the following questions: Was his death significant in our war against terror? And do you have a negative or positive view of this event? Readers — 13,864 of them …
Telegraph: AV referendum: What if a general election were held today under AV?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:56
Interesting analysis on a Fusion Tables based map: "This new analysis suggests the result of the 2010 general election would have resulted in the Labour Party gaining more seats than the Conservative Party, using predictions for second and third p…
New York Times: Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 09:59
Story on the Zeit Online data retention interactive: “This is really the most compelling visualization in a public forum I have ever seen,” said [Matthew Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania], add…
maptd: Worldwide map of nuclear power stations and earthquake zones
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:31
Good global map of nuclear power stations vs seismic activity.
10,000 Words: How they did it: The New York Times’ budget interactive
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 15:09
"During the design process … [graphics editor Kevin Quealy] said he had to strike a balance between the interactive being too simple (and boring) and being too complex (and game-like, for something that’s a serious topic). … To facilitate the sharing of a user’s results, a variable called “choices” is appended to the URL. This variable tells the Javascript which tax cuts and spending increases to display. A user then has the option to post the results to Twitter, by interacting with the service’s Tweet Button, which Quealy noted is partially why the interactive is so popular on Twitter."
