Visualization of names and words used by Presidential candidates
The New York Times has a really interesting Circos/Clusterball style visualization of the names used by US presidential candidates to refer to opponents in the debates preceding the Iowa caucuses. (Link)
A graph of common words used by candidates in the debates is available as well:
Link (via information aesthetics & visualmethods.blogspot.com)
tags: just plain cool, thought provoking
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Yeah, those visualizations were really interesting.
I hadn't seen the Circos / Clusterball examples before. Thanks for linking to those.
Not sure why there isn't Ron Paul or Kucinich on there... Hmm... big media bias maybe? Still a cool visualization anyway.
While the clusterball looks very interesting, it's certainly very hard to read at first glance, you need to invest a lot of time to understand it.
Is there a way to see all cites? The graphic shows a lot of arrows but only two or three cites for each candidate? Would be interesting to see _what_ they say ..
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New York Times visualization are an example for all people interested in representing large amounts of data. On the same subject, we just launched our first cartography of the political US webosphere, you can find it at http://www.presidentialwatch08.com.
Hope you'll enjoy it !
We agree, this technique for visualizing data was interesting. We've had similar ideas about graphing RSS Feeds and have called them 'Bscopes'. You can find them at http://www.bscopes.com
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Stephen Waits [12.27.07 11:22 PM]
Too bad the NYT left out the candidates who actually are saying something worth listening to. Paul, Kucinich, and Gravel.
But the NYT has already established that it, along with all other big media, is going to do all it can to keep these guys down.