Unless you’ve been hiding under a Ba-rock (sorry) you have been inundated with information and opinions about this election. This post contains none of that, I just wanted to show you how the cute, but now retired blog, Sewer Sewist celebrated the last election with their Obama Craft Project . A refreshingly positive and fun way of dealing with these elections. So keep yourself sane with your crotchet, knitting, or sewing needles tonight!
I’m fascinated by all the different ways there are to visualize data – here’s a really cool cartogram by Mark Newman of the University of Michigan (co-author of Atlas of the Real World). His representation of the election results illustrates the complexity of the numbers, much more so than the usual red state/blue state model. […]
Great round up of election day “mash ups” from Jason at hackszine…. Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state of web technology, survey data, online conversation and public information would be merging together into web applications and utilities for the growing digital […]
