April 2012
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Sketches from White House State Dinners
Elisabeth Bumiller’s recent profile of Jeremy Bernard, the first man and openly gay person to be the White House social secretary, used an interesting dataset: a list of everyone who has attended a state dinner in the Obama administration. I don’t have a ton of experience with Styles (or with “style”, for that matter), but this was a good chance to do something different...
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White House Visits and Democratic Donors: Data...
In last Sunday’s, paper Mike McIntire and Michael Luo published their investigation into White House visits by large Democratic donors. As simple as the chart was, we pondered many complex options before publishing it.
Early on, I thought some large-scale visualization of all major donors might be interesting, so I plotted a couple hundred of the top donors (based loosely on first and last...
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Mapping Process: Rick Santorum's Race
We had a medium-sized graphic in today’s paper looking back on Rick Santorum’s campaign. The map was made in R using maptools, a package I find increasingly easy and fun to use. For me, the best part about visualizing data in R is that it even when you screw things up pretty bad, the result usually looks pretty cool.
Anyway, the map is not revolutionary or anything, but it worked...
