Visualizing election news

by Richard Pak on September 11, 2008 · 2 comments

in design, infovis, websites

Here is an interesting website that aggregates news items about both US presidential candidates and visualizes that data providing a nice dashboard-like “snapshot”.  Once you click on a bar or candidate name, it shows you word-sized historical graphs (sparklines) of their popularity.  For more information on sparklines or other ways of visualizing data, see Edward Tufte.

http://everymomentnow.com

Sparklines for Obama-related terms

Sparklines for McCain-related terms


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1 Anne McLaughlin September 11, 2008 at 11:26 am

Well, I easily detect the DNC and Palin news spikes in the first one.

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