Sitegeist - Ground Yourself with Data
Sitegeist is a mobile application that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Drawing on publicly available information, the app presents solid data in a simple at-a-glance format to help you tap into the pulse of your location. From demographics about people and housing to the latest popular spots or weather, Sitegeist presents localized information visually so you can get back to enjoying the neighborhood. The application draws on free APIs such as the U.S. Census, Yelp! and others to showcase what’s possible with access to data.
Infoamazonia various data baked into 3 tile sets + overlay of point data for news stories etc.
Romney surging, but Obama well ahead in campaign cash
For Mitt Romney, the magic number is $158 million. That’s how much he’ll have to outraise President Barack Obama over the last four months of the campaign to surpass the president, the record holder for campaign fundraising.
Obama’s advantage has been lost in media reports highighting the Republican nominee’s $106 million June haul. Even Obama’s campaign, including the president himself, has downplayed its financial advantage when it warns of being outspent by Romney and the Republican National Committee. For that to happen, Romney would have to best Obama by $39.5 million a month for each of the last four months of the campaign, which is $5 million more than the advantage Romney had in June.
An analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosure reports starting when Obama and Romney formally disclosed their candidacies running through the end of May 2012, and adding in totals the campaigns have announced for June, shows that Obama and his affiliated groups have raised $552.5 million, compared to Romney’s $394.9 million.
Knight News Challenge Round 2: Show me the data: Democratizing visualization tools
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Create tools for journalists, including those in small newsrooms, and citizen-journalists to transform data into compelling visuals.
2. How will your project make data more useful? [50 words]
Organizations such as The New York Times or the Washington…
List of Hand-Picked and Recommended Data Visualization Tools
Data and visualization blogs worth following
Describing Sept. 11 In A Word: Then And Now
Be a part of NPR’s 9/11 user-generated data visualization! Word submissions are now open.
