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How much space each person has in some of the world’s major cities
The Globe obtained fare data for one cab driver. It reveals a job filled with frustrating days and meager rewards.
Every known drone attack in Pakistan
It’s hard to know the impact of drone attacks as outsiders looking in, because the United States government doesn’t disclose the information. Using data maintained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which is estimates based on reports from the ground, Pitch Interactive sheds some light on every known drone attack in Pakistan.
rstats shiny app for tracking the next pope
After getting frustrated with having to run python over and over again (see previous post) to see the trends in the Papal odds, I’ve put together a basic shiny app that allows for real time updates and interactivity.
The many relationships of Zeus
Ilaria Pagin had a look at all of Zeus’s relationships according to many authors over the years.
Character mentions in Les Miserables
Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character mentions, word connections, and word usage. The above is character mentions with color showing sentiment. Red means negative, and blue positive.
The family tree for All in the Family
James Grady from Fathom Information Design had a look at the family tree of All in the Family, a popular television from the 1970s
Pinball machine as Etch A Sketch
When you plan pinball, the ball bounces around creating paths for itself and the better you play, the more control you have over those paths. Recent design graduate Sam van Doorn modified a machine so that you can see those paths in his project STYN.
Los Angeles Fire Department response times
Ben Welsh, Robert Lopez, and Kate Linthicum for the Los Angeles Times analyzed more than a million runs by the Los Angeles Fire Department to estimate response times, based on where you live. The national standard is six minutes. The map shows average response times that are greater in red and those that are under in green (basically, anywhere there is a fire department).
Since 2000, the Hewlett Foundation has made over 7,000 grants summing $3.86 billion, to support communities around the world. Periscopic broke it down by area and amount. Each section is a heat map with years on the horizontal and amount on the vertical.
2012 political donations mapped over time
Following their animated and narrated visualization on political contributions over time, VisPolitics maps Boston political donations in MoneyBombs.
My central air conditioner started to suck about a month ago, so I called A/C repair. It took them five appointments, four to assess the problem and one to fix it. The trouble was that for each appointment they’d give me a four-hour window, and every time except the last, they arrived about a half an hour outside the window.
In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in Cloud Globe. The interactive animation shows coverage from July 1, 2010 to September 12, 2012, with a globe that you can move around as expected and a timeline on the bottom that indicates high levels of coverage.
Presidential campaign finance explorer
Hey, I think it’s election season, and you know what that means. It’s time to dig into campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. The Washington Post gives you a view into the amount of money raised and spent in both camps, where it’s coming from and where it’s going. They start with the high-level aggregates, and as you scroll down, you get the time series, followed by the breakdowns for money raised.
Related: King of fundraising: Obama leads Romney by $242 million
Data sculpture shows emotional response to Olympics
During the Olympics, Studio NAND, Moritz Stefaner, and Drew Hemment tracked Twitter sentiment with Emoto. This interactive installation and data sculpture is the last leg of the project.
