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The power of the crowd: Is life getting better or worse?

Projects November 4, 2011 katdowns Leave a comment

An excerpt of my post about our new project on the WP innovations blog: This is one of the first projects to take users opinions and mash them up with actual data to see whether perceptions match up with reality. It’s a fascinating window into how people feel about the places where they live and a forum for a conversation around how things are changing. There are already some patterns emerging. We are starting to see that, in general, more states with high unemployment are…

How does your income compare?

Information Graphics September 28, 2011 katdowns Leave a comment

In an extremely quick turnaround, I worked with Dan Keating to create this tool that shows you the breakdown of what other people of your age, race, and location make each year. Hopefully in the future we’ll be able to improve it and add some more metrics, but it’s pretty cool for taking less than a day!

Census apportionment over time

Information Graphics December 23, 2010 katdowns Leave a comment

With Tuesday’s apportionment announcement, we decided to create an interactive map that would look at reapportionment over time. Census also created a map like that here. Gene Thorp created a cartogram with the data that appeared on page 1 of the newspaper — you can check that out here.