NYT 2008 Campaign Appearances

Election Guide 2008 - Presidential Election - Politics - Past Events - The New York Times

This is a nice example of the NYT graphics shop's work.

Discuss: 1) What is great about this? 2) What features would you add? 3) What fails to clearly present the data? 4) (extra points:) How would you fix it?

Political Scientist Shares Economics Nobel

2 Americans Share Economics Nobel - NYTimes.com

Our Big Ten colleague at Indiana, Elinor Ostrom, has won the Nobel Prize in economics. She is the first woman laureate ever for the economics prize. And she is the fourth political scientist to win or share the Nobel.

Bravo!

Data Visualization at Madison

This blog will cover topics in data visualization across fields, though with some focus on social science.

It will also support the class Political Science 919 in the spring semester 2010 that I will teach on data visualization. Anyone interested in taking the class should contact me.

The content will start to grow soon with lots of links.

You can also follow my vis posts on Twitter by following UWMadVis.