August 2011
1 post
SXSW Panel Picking
I’ve heard a lot about SXSW Interactive festival, but never attended. Now, for the first time, I’ve been included in a panel proposal so there is a very real chance that I’ll attend.
As such, I’ve been going through the (lengthy) list of proposed panels and voting for the ones I’m most interested in attending. Below I’ve put together a list of panels...
October 2010
1 post
WatchI’m very excited to share with you a data visualization project we did for Resurgent Republic that just went live this last week:
An Independent Congress
How would a Congress full of Independents Vote?
http://independentcongress.resurgentrepublic.com
What if Congress were comprised only of Independent voters? What sort of policies would they prefer? Would the legislation they pass be more...
September 2010
3 posts
AMP Dataviz Panel Resources
Last Saturday I had a great time moderating a panel at the AMP Summit on Data Visualization; panelists included:
Justin Ferrell, Washington Post
Morgan Clendaniel, GOOD Magazine
Clay Broga, Public Notice
Over the course of our conversation, there were a whole host of products, websites and books cited, and I wanted to be sure they were shared with interested parties. To that end, here is a...
Wired: Chart Wars
If you’ve gotten here via my recent article in Wired UK, welcome!
I’m not quite sure why they linked to my Tumblr profile, as this isn’t the place I’m most active. Instead, I’d rather you follow me on Twitter @alexlundry, or subscribe to my company’s blog, ToThePoint.
Hope you enjoyed the piece!
- Alex
July 2010
2 posts
Playing with Tableau
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White House Salaries 2009-2010
The White House, as required by federal law, has released their annual report to Congress on the salaries of White House staffers. For the second time, this data has been released as a downloadable, machine readable CSV file. Because of this I was able to link it back to the previous year’s data. This means we can see who got raises and promotions. Here’s a very quick data dump of...
May 2010
2 posts
“Perhaps surprisingly, opinions about the terms ‘socialism’ &...”
– Pew Research: http://bit.ly/a270ca
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How Hot Is Your Tea? →
On April 15th my firm surveyed almost 500 attendees of the Tax Day Tea Party Rallyin Washington D.C. with questions about their feelings on current issues. Ever wondered how your feelings compare to theirs? Take this quiz and find out!
April 2010
3 posts
July 2009
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June 2009
3 posts
“Our analysis finds that public votes on salient policy questions (ballot...”
– Political Engagement, Mobilization, and Direct Democracy
May 2009
9 posts
Pew Political Values Study →
Pew’s update to their comprehensive Political Values study…ultimately a must read for anyone interested in politics, but nonetheless, I’ve compiled a few of the most compelling findings below:
The proportion of independents now equals its highest level in 70 years.
On an annual basis, the only previous year when independent identification has been this high was in 1992 when...
Partisan Webs: Information Exchange & Party... →
How do conservatives share lists? This academic paper tracked how political organizations exchanged donor lists using social network analysis. Some of the more interesting/relevant findings:
(in ‘04/’05) DEM organizations were more actively involved in list exchanges than GOP orgs.
Human Events only org to list share w/apolitical orgs: they sold list to “Health &...
“Ball two is where the supposedly perfect tuning of baseball goes flat. As long...”
– The Monkey Cage: Banish ball two
The Beckner-Posner Blog →
Conservative intellectual heavyweights Gary Becker & Richard Posner bring some desperately needed REASON to the right-of-center blogosphere.
“Predictive analytics is torturing the data until it confesses.”
– John Elder