pilhofer on Many Eyes

Visualization 'Word Net, Downie Report'

2009-10-19T21:43:39-04:00

Visualization 'Word Tree, Downie Report'

2009-10-19T21:42:26-04:00

Visualization 'Downie Report Tag Cloud'

2009-10-19T21:39:47-04:00

Dataset 'The Reconstruction of American Journalism'

2009-10-19T21:38:25-04:00

Visualization 'Participation in Tennis by Country (4+ Times/Year)'

2007-08-29T16:42:52-04:00

Dataset 'Number of Tennis Players by Country (4+ Times/Year)'

2007-08-29T16:40:23-04:00

Dataset 'Number of Tennis Players by Country (4+ Times/Year)'

2007-08-29T16:37:21-04:00

Visualization 'Countries Represented by Year, US Open Men's Main Draw'

2007-08-27T23:26:17-04:00

Dataset 'Countries Represented by Year, US Open Men's Main Draw'

2007-08-27T23:25:51-04:00

Dataset 'Non-U.S. Countries Represented by Year, US Open Men's Main Draw'

2007-08-27T23:11:52-04:00

Comment on VisualizationPost ' So, this visualization I think shows (in rather dramatic fashion)...'

2007-08-25T19:19:45-04:00

So, this visualization I think shows (in rather dramatic fashion) how far American tennis has fallen since the salad days of the late-'70s, early-'80s, at least for the men. I have yet to scrape the WTA site to get the women's draws, but I suspect the numbers will be fairly similar. Actually, maybe even more dramatic, come to think of it. I've highlighted the high- and low-water marks for the men above, and it's pretty incredible. The peak year is 1982, when 78 ... that's right... seventy-eight... US Players earned their way into the 128-player main draw. You can see how far things have fallen since then, with low-points in 1999 and 2004.

Comment on VisualizationPost 'Wow, this is slick as heck! I really like this visualization....'

2007-08-25T11:01:42-04:00

Wow, this is slick as heck! I really like this visualization. To answer the question about Clinton and payroll taxes... Again, it's a reporting problem. The FEC does not require candidates to report salaries any particular way, so, some of them break out payroll taxes and benefits as a separate line item, and others don't. Actually, come to think of it I think Clinton is the only one that doesn't, but I could be wrong. So, the best way to look at payroll is actually to combine salaries and taxes/benefits. That's the best apples-to-apples. I had them broken out because certain reporters wanted to look at certain candidates and find out who is making what in before-tax income. In truth, I probably should have combined those fields for this visualization... a very good point there.

Comment on VisualizationPost 'Sorry for being slow on the uptake. "Media" in this case...'

2007-08-25T10:56:29-04:00

Sorry for being slow on the uptake. "Media" in this case is a very, very broad category that includes money for any kind of advertising, phone banks, polling operations as well as a slew of other voter-contact related activities -- everything from T-shirts to lawn signs. The problem with FEC data is that it doesn't break out specific expenditures for specific things. For example, there is no way to say how much a candidate is spending on advertising versus direct mail versus phone banks. I wish there were. So, the best I could do was group together all the expenditures on items related to reaching out to voters (whether that is by phone, mail or broadcast TV/radio).