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| Tribes in the Senate | ||
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Ran in: Slate, April 28, 2009 Built with: Actionscript, XML Description: Each dot (or "node") in this social network diagram represents one senator from the 111th Congress. Republicans are red, Democrats are blue, and the two independents are orange and green. Mouse over a dot to see the senator's name. This diagram links any two senators who have voted together at least 60 percent of the time in the current session of Congress, updated through April 23, 2009. That calculation yielded 2,393 connections between the 99 senators. The program treats each connection like a spring, letting the nodes bounce around until they reach a state of equilibrium. When you mouse over a senator, all those to whom he or she is connected are highlighted in yellow. If you had any doubts that partisanship is alive and well in the Senate, consider this: The program has no knowledge of political parties, other than to color the dots so that we can see the divide. In other word, the split here is entirely based on voting patterns. Embedded from Slate with permission. |
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| The Steroids Social Network | ||
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Ran in: Slate, December 21, 2007 Built with: Flash, Social Action Description: My friend Dr. Adam Perer and I built this visualization based on the Mitchell Report on performance enchancing drugs in Major League Baseball. Because the report was rich in details about how players introduced teammates to the source of the drugs, it naturally organized itself into a social network. After we got this data into a readable format, Adam ran it through his Social Action software to generate the network and calculate the most influential players. Embedded from Slate with permission. | ||