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FlowingData passes along the link to this fine piece of work by Ben Fry. “Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas”Journos could be using a similar approach to analyze the evolution of the ideas of public officials. Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas Posted by Nathan / Sep 7,2009 [...] Mary Ellen Bates offers up this good tip on “Google Squared”at August 2009 Google Squared Google Labs —the public playground where Google lets users try out new products or services that aren't yet ready for prime time —is my secret weapon for learning about cool new stuff. My favorite new discovery in Google Labs is Google Squared. It's a demonstration of a search engine trying to provide answers instead of just sites,and at a higher level than the simple “smart answers”you see when you search for “time in Rome”…[...] Colleague Owen Densmore points us to this page with these comments:
Handicapping the Horserace
It’s human nature:Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the other candidate’s closet. Or,we can learn from serious journalism to tap into the growing number of digital tools at hand and see what is really going on …[...] We have long been fans —and users —of the research tutorials created by the good folks in the UC Berkeley library. This item below from The Scout Report reminds me of that work and why I like it so much. You,too,might find it a helpful link for your training efforts. [...] 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 [...] Yes,call us fickle and lacking in loyalty when it comes to note-taking and research organization tools. Does anyone else remember the 5×8 cards with holes punched on all four perimeters? You entered “tags”or keywords by clipping out the outer edge of the hole,and when you needed to find a particular [...] From O'Reilly Radar's Publishing blog comes this interesting item. See http://radar.oreilly.com/publishing/ The Traditional Future “A prominent U.S. sociologist and student of professions,Andrew Abbott of the University of Chicago,has written a thought-provoking thesis on what he terms “library research”—that is,research as performed with library-held resources by historians,[...] Another unique investigation by The New York Times gets A1 play in this Sunday's edition (1 Oct. 2006) under the hed “Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court's Rulings.” Adam Liptak and Janet Roberts (who probably did the heavy lifting on the data analysis) took a long-term look at who contributed to the campaigns of Ohio's [...] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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