On March 18, Dan Meth created a U.S. sitcom map. (That followed his popular New York map of sitcoms.) On April 2, Flowing Data issued a challenge to improve the U.S. map. Today I finished this interactive map of sitcom locations. (And by finished, I mean someone already mentioned two more sitcoms that should be [...]

Source: Looking for Lincoln Back in July I posted a tutorial on how to create a Google map from a spreadsheet without messing with code. You can now create a map with tabbed map windows — still without messing with code. Click on the markers in this map of places President Abraham Lincoln lived and [...]

Every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words visualizes the Congressional Record for each Congressman, state, day, week, month, year, etc. A heat map shows which states’ lawmakers are talking the most, and lists shows which lawmakers are talking the most and least. In Missouri, I know that Sam Graves was the most chatty [...]

Editor & Publisher has been a list of presidential endorsements. I’ve mapped them, looking for geographic trends. For the papers that have endorsed either Barack Obama or John McCain, I have also mapped their 2004 and 2000 endorsements. It’s interesting to see the colors change — or if they do. E&P recently reported that Republicans [...]

Three weeks to Election Day, and several newspapers are announcing who they are endorsing. Editor & Publisher has a running list. Lists are nice, but I wanted to see if there were geographic trends. This map will be updated as more papers endorse either Democrat Barack Obama (blue markers) or Republican John McCain (red markers).