The most excellent Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Chris Evans sez, “I made this 8bit London Underground map a while ago, entirely in Tile Studio with a bit of Gimp to add text.”
This is how jittery financial markets are, in one chart
The official Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, the AP reported, and the hacker tweeted out that there had been a White House explosion.
Stanley Kubrick Week
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
![Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts
Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/93e889995dcab37ff945aa9b3a35199a/tumblr_mlod1tSCtG1qhn3smo1_1280.jpg)
Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts
Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.
It’s the most comprehensive map of US biodiversity ever made.
Birth certificates by IWANT for Icon magazine
East London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal.
loop / oktober 2004 - september 2005 / asprovalta
in conferences on data visualization, creative code, information graphics
Why did four key Democrats vote no on extending gun background checks?
Back in February, we at Sunlight made some predictions about the Democrats who would be most likely to oppose some tightening of gun laws, based on three factors: being up for a vote in 2014, having a high number of gun businesses in the state, and having a low Obama vote share.
Based on the data, we thought Sens. Max Baucus, Mark Begich, Tim Johnson and Mark Pryor were most likely to vote ‘no’ on reform. We got 3/4 correct.
More here.
The evolution of discussion around the Boston Marathon events
When the Esri DC Dev Center team first found out about the reported explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we immediately tuned into Twitter to capture live discussions so that we could understand the series of events. With over 440,000 tweets captured in under 24 hours, one can imagine the difficulty in trying to synthesize an understanding of how events occurred over that time period.
Metro cuff bracelets by Design Hype
wnyc:
Take a trip inside the magical world of….The Book of Clocks. This guide sits in the control rooms at WNYC and has the standard “clocks” for each show. How long the segments are, where the breaks come, when the network hands off to the local affiliate, etc… Without this, we’d be flying blind. Also makes for great bedtime reading.
-Jody, BL Show-
For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap
More than 700,00 people live in assisted-living centers, where they get help with daily activities like bathing and dressing. Most of the residents have multiple chronic health conditions.
Shining a light on DC campaign finance
Over the last two years, money from 47 other states has poured into DC municipal contests, raising intriguing questions about what interest contributors might have in races where the debate often centers around parking restrictions, charter schools and creating dog parks. Our analysis shows that contributions from outside DC made up 30 percent of the funding used to fuel local political campaigns.
We’ve just added several years worth of D.C. campaign finance data into Influence Explorer. Dig in here.
The Frustration of San Francisco’s Mass-Transit Riders, Visualized
