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April 30th, 2012 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources, Data Visualizations, featured, STEM

State of the Union

  Today’s infographic takes various key words in State of the Union addresses since 2001 and creates size bubbles based on their use. Words and subjects include economy, war, and family. It shows a variety of things, including what is important to the President, and what is important to t[...]

March 27th, 2012 - 10:42 pm § in Data Sources, Data Visualizations

Washington Experience Viewed Less Positively

With education in America becoming better and better, more and more people think they know what is best for the country, and because people are better educated they would, in theory, be right. It seems as though people are more opinionated about politics, or they may just be able to spread their opi[...]

March 14th, 2012 - 1:55 am § in Data Sources, Data Visualizations, Humanities

Who voted for Santorum and Romney

I have several thoughts about the upcoming presidential election that may be fun to ponder for students. The first pertains to the names. I heard that the 2008 election was the first presidential election without a Bush, Kennedy, Gore or Clinton in 40 or so years (don’t quote me on that, I jus[...]

November 16th, 2011 - 2:44 am § in Data Sources, Data Visualizations, featured, Humanities

Politilines shows what candidates talk about during debates

Think about your day, and think about the conversations you had? What did you talk about the most? Your weekend plans, politics, a sports game? What you talk most about often shows your priorities. This infographic shows what presidential candidates talk most about during debates. Politicians are tr[...]