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We Feel Fine
by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
This piece is beautiful. An interactive visualization again of blog post data including statements relating to emotions. This is a constantly changing data set, refreshing every 10 minutes and gathering information from [...]
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The Dumpster, by Golan Levin, with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg for the Whitney and the Tate online gallery, 2006
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/
This piece is amusing and good looking. From a usability perspective, the interface is not very intuitive and from [...]
Wattzon released an API that allows you to get profile data and data from the Embodied Energy Database (EED, http://www.wattzon.com/stuff). I’m planning to use this as part of my final project for the class I’m taking on mashups.
Wattzon and Wesabe are working together. From the Wattzon blog post from 02/09/09: Wesabe is a free, online [...]
Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/index.html
Searching for data about how campaign and proposition donations are spent and how well money-spent maps to election-won, I came across these Google Maps showing a variety of election data including but not limited to: Primary results, Election-related twitter, Donation Density, the Life stories of both Obama and McCain.
Federal Election Committee released “Campaign Finance [...]