Direct to the Dashboard

We've been a fan of the dashbroad approach for a long time because dashboard graphics can give readers a quick snapshot of multiple sets of dynamic data. Charley Kyd, who studied journalism some years back, has developed a nifty plug-and-play package — Dashbroad Kit #1 — to generate these. And below is a recent and relevant posting from Jorge Camoes that gives us some good tips on the topic.

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10 tips to improve your Excel dashboard

Posted: 26 Jan 2008 06:42 PM CST

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Clever political mapping from the Brits

From Poynter's E-media Tidbits

Posted by Paul Bradshaw 10:48:59 AM

Flash, Database, Mapping: Telegraph Does It with Politics

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The Telegraph's U.K. election map: Not just pretty, but potentially very useful.

The Telegraph is making a habit of combining Flash and databases to impressive effect. Their latest project also includes mapping to produce a political map of the U.K. with real depth behind its Flashy appearance.

The Telegraph achieves this with some nifty database connectivity. A click on a particular constituency brings up info about the last election results — not in itself very impressive. However, a tab to the … [...]

The type of service newspapers should be supplying, but are not.

This from O'Reillyi Radar. (Yes, whoever wrote the hed surely meant “travel-time maps”.)

Dynamic Time-Travel Maps From MySociety and Stamen

UK-based non-profit MySociety teamed up with Stamen Design to develop some innovative time-travel maps. The snapshot of the map that you see above shows where you can live in London with a commute between 30 to 60 minutes where the median house price is over £230, 000. As you adjust the sliders, the map changes in realtime letting you adjust the commute times from 0 up to 90 minutes and the housing price from 0 to £990,00. The Department of … [...]

So just how much are those guys making, anyway?

The editorial team at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker tipped us off to a potentially valuable link from the SEC. While we find that the site is still short on data, we assume it will be filling up as various corporate reports are filed. Check out:

New from the SEC: Internet Tool With Instant Comparisons [...]

The Dataweb and the DataFeret

Marylaine Block's always informative “Neat New Stuff” [Neat New Stuff I Found This Week at http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html] tipped us to the DataWeb site and its interesting tool, the Data Feret (or “dataferet”).

“TheDataWeb is a network of online data libraries that the DataFerrett application accesses the data through. Data topics include, census data, economic [...]

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