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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

enviroVOTE: Tune in tonight to track the environmintiness of the elections

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 [...]

Posted by on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at 6:45 pm — 1 comment Tagged , , , , , .