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…
National Geographic Magazine: What’s in a Surname?
Monday, 31 January 2011, 17:06
"America is a nation of Smiths, Johnsons, and Sullivans—but also of Garcias and Nguyens. Zoom in on the map below to see what surnames proliferate in your part of the country."
New York Times: How Twitter Users Balanced the Budget
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:44
How users of the New York Times interactive graphic on balancing the budget who reported their choices on Twitter suggested spending cuts and tax increases. Very clever.
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."
New York Times: Get a Pencil. You’re Tackling the Deficit (PDF)
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:50
Clever: "An interactive graphic (without all the costly computer equipment)."
New York Times: Behind the Times’s Deficit Project
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:47
"The starting point for our calculation is work done by Alan Auerbach and William Gale, two economists who are experts on the federal budget. Mr. Auerbach and Mr. Gale have written two recent papers that review what they call “the dismal prospects for the federal budget.” As an extension of that work, they built a spreadsheet for The Times that analyzed the savings that the government would need to achieve each year starting in 2015 to keep the deficit at 3 percent of gross domestic product. That’s the level that many economists consider sustainable for the deficit, because one year’s normal economic growth can pay off the previous year’s budget shortfall."
New York Times: Interactive Feature: Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:44
"Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. … Make your own plan, then share it online."
Forbes.com: Interactive: Billionaires’ Favorite Politicians
Monday, 1 November 2010, 18:43
"The billionaires on the Forbes 400 list have given more than $30 million to politicians and political action committees since 2006, along with millions more in soft money to politically active groups. Although Forbes 400 members give about 15% more money to Republicans than Democrats, they fund groups across the political spectrum."
New York Times: Interactive Feature: Where Tea Party Candidates Are Running
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 10:58
Nice map-based navigation for lists of candidates and details about them, their districts, and their races.
NYTimes.com: Graphic: What Are You Reading on the Subway? Our Readers Respond
Saturday, 5 September 2009, 13:23
"By Friday, almost 6,000 readers had answered the question, 'What was the last book, magazine and newspaper you read on the subway?' Here are the top choices so far."
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, 5 January 2008, 11:23
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A nice graphic explaining how Iowa’s caucus system works…
Friday, 10 August 2007, 08:08
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Interactive map of homocide victims in Los Angeles, based on county coroner data and Times research.
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 08:38
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A very impressive interactive infographic from the New York Times.
