That's not random...

The First Black President:

Alright Par you can go ahead with this info/data/ visulization experiment but I'll slip in a few random words to skew your results. Spoon!

The keynote the last day of this conference in Chicago was given by Martin Wattenberg. It was a fascinating look at the cool little things you can do with text and data visualizations and by asking a few very simple questions. For example, going from "what color is a lemon?" to using web-based image searches to create a map of the average color of every word in the English language. Another, possibly more familiar, visualization was the NameVoyager, which was an interactive plot of the relative popularity of baby names. (Click the link, it's more than likely you've seen it before.)

In any case, some very interesting stuff.

Now, something new they have is the Many Eyes project. Per Wattenberg:

To "democratize" visualization, and experiment with new collaborative techniques, we built Many Eyes, a web site where people may upload their own data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations.

This.Fucking.Election. Relive the fun!

Saul Williams weighs in on the election. Guess who he supports.

Having arrived in Chicago, let me get this straight: Tonight the clock goes back an hour, which will be three hours back relative to where I was this morning, but then I'll still go two hours ahead on Monday, but Friday I'll go back the three hours again.

Right?

Oh Noes!!

Seriously, though, I'm not too put out by this. He was a great Doctor, but it's not like he's leaving too soon. (And he's definitely not hanging on too long...)

The 51st state votes (52nd? 53rd? 54th?) The race/class breakdowns are kind of interesting. Somebody get Nate Silver on that shit.

Don't forget to tell Mike not to drink my beer just because I'm in Halifax.

Cool & Creepy

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