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ian
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democratic primaries
« on: Feb 10th, 2004, 11:57pm » |
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i'll add in more states as the voting goes on, but for now, my visualization of the democratic primaries as a little mechanical universe:
http://www.nobodaddy.org/cm/3.htm
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REAS
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Re: democratic primaries
« Reply #1 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 2:15am » |
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this seems really unique. i haven't seen a similar visualization of this type of data. do you know of precendent?
+ casey
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ian
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Re: democratic primaries
« Reply #2 on: Feb 12th, 2004, 6:51am » |
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thanks - haven't seen anything too related. i'd be very interested to see anything you stumble upon.
having sketched this out, i'm interested in putting some probes down deeper into the avalanche of polling data this election year - contemporary politics seems so fetishistic about polls - maybe a bit less so in this administration. there is still a lot of interesting data of this kind out there to work with. i want to look into the idea of projection - projecting election results visually in some way. a lot of the campaign trail seems to be a contest about who can emulate certain coveted patterns - winning iowa - who is able to distort traditional projections - seems like good grist for a project.
i'll post anything i come up with
ian
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forkinsocket
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Re: democratic primaries
« Reply #3 on: Feb 14th, 2004, 9:57am » |
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Ian,
This is so cute. I wonder if additional information overlayed on this might tell a more powerful story. Something as simple as adding color for states that belong to the same geographic region could make it more compelling. Right now it reads as a lot of small circles in orbit. How are they related (or are they)? What about the development of these candidates over time: are they becoming stronger in force? Weaker? The candidates, as you present them, are all the same size. Perhaps you could tally a 'collective' force each candidate exerts, and incorporate this value into your visualisation.
Those are my thoughts at the moment. Politics is interesting material to work with. Keep at it. Do you know about the Eyebeam stuff?
http://www.fundrace.org/
http://www.googlerace.com/
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ian
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Re: democratic primaries
« Reply #4 on: Feb 18th, 2004, 4:15am » |
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thanks - helpful feedback about the time aspect. it would be interesting to look at each candidate's fundraising as correlated to their standing in the polls - possible. i'm a student at ITP and one of my colleagues here worked on those eyebeam projects - have to ask her where i can get a hold of the raw data on fundraising.
i think that senate map posted somewhere below was yours, no? very nice work on that.
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forkinsocket
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Re: democratic primaries
« Reply #5 on: Aug 3rd, 2004, 10:49pm » |
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hey ian,
are you still working on political visualizations? i would love to see anything you're cooking up for the election races.
d.
(actually if *anyone* on the board is working on political visualizations, i would love to hear about your project)
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