This morning, Ryan Mark and I launched enviroVOTE!
Conceived last Monday, and built in a three-day coding sprint that ended in the wee hours this morning, the site tracks the environmental impact of the elections by comparing winning candidates with environmentally-friendly endorsements.
The numbers
Amy Gahran got the scoop with her E-Media Tidbits post:
The site’s home page features [...]
I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story. Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]
Are we sinking or sunk? Alfred Hermida writes that, at least in Canada, new research shows that nobody buys the paper for local news:
The main reason for choosing newspapers was out of habit. People were either daily readers or subscribers.
But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And [...]
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