Category: Government and Public Data

Comments Guest Viz Police Post from VizCandy by Ellie Fields - Jan. 19th 2011 Today the blog VizCandy quite effectively Viz Police'd the Canadian Globe and Mail. VizCandy is quite civilized and polite, as you would expect in Canadian discourse about ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...	Comments Some Data-scaping and Data-scraping Tools... by Ross Perez - Jan. 11th 2011 Frequent readers will know, we have made a bit of a habit of scraping data from the web and turning it into Public visualizations. We have also noticed a large contingent of Tableau Public users turn to the web to ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...
Comments The "Best" Worst Dashboard of 2010 by Ross Perez - Jan. 11th 2011 It's hard to make beautiful dashboards! We will be the first to admit that we occasionally put out some less than perfect work when we're short on time for beautification. That said, we do pride ourselves on making sure that our vizzes make sense, at the very ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...	Comments 2010 Census - A Preliminary View by Ross Perez - Dec. 22nd 2010 If, like me, you are a little bit of a data geek or "data enthusiast", then you have been pretty dang excited over the past year. The reason, of course, is the United States Census. Far more than a simple head count, the census affects every one of us through Congressional reapportionments and funding for thousands of government ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...
Comments Earmarks for 2011 by Ross Perez - Dec. 15th 2010 Every year, politicians from both sides of the aisle tack on billions of dollars in excess projects for their home districts, but without a way to search for these earmarks the average citizen is left to search through each and every bill. Good luck. Fortunately, the folks at the Category Government and Public Data Read more...	Comments USA Debt Viz (and Downtime Tonight Tues Nov 16th) from Mark Bulling - Nov. 16th 2010 Mark Bulling published a fantastic viz on USA debt at his blog dot linking using data from the Guardian Datablog. And before we dive into the viz, heads up that tonight we will have some ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...