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From concept to sketch to software: Building a new way to visualize votes… mmm, environminty!

Ryan Mark and I built enviroVOTE to help people visualize the environmental impact of the 2008 elections. We designed it in two evenings and made it real in a three-and-a-half-day long bender of data crunching and code.
This is the story of that time.

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Sunday evening, 26 October: the concept
The idea struck [...]

Posted by on Friday, December 19, 2008, at 11:04 am — no comments Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Thinking about data visualization for journalists

I posted the other day about data visualization tools, but even the best tools can’t save you if you’re clueless about visualization techniques. Most of this stuff isn’t web-specific, but I rant so frequently about this stuff to my classmates that I thought it’d be worthy of a post.
Charts!
Flowing Data recently challenged their readers [...]

Posted by on Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at 8:30 pm — 5 comments Tagged , , , , .