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Incidentally, I found the 2004 election ones you were looking for, along with a few other years here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/
redistorting maps: the virtue of cartograms
M. V. Jantzen has designed a fun tool that let's you rearrange a subway map to show actual travel times from where you are. It's featured today at Greater Greater Washington. Here's Washington DC Metro viewed from Ballston station in Virginia: Jantzen calls this a "distortion," and with that...
Those size-by-statistic maps are called cartograms, and you can find a bevy of interesting ones here: http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_index.html
redistorting maps: the virtue of cartograms
M. V. Jantzen has designed a fun tool that let's you rearrange a subway map to show actual travel times from where you are. It's featured today at Greater Greater Washington. Here's Washington DC Metro viewed from Ballston station in Virginia: Jantzen calls this a "distortion," and with that...
There's a effect, the name of which escapes me, where you read a newspaper column about a story with which you are familiar and notice all the errors, then turn the page to a column about an unfamiliar topic and treat it as authoritative.
Anything we can do to put more readers in the first position is good.
should we criticise false claims of "innovation"?
Yesterday, twice in one day, I encountered major news articles in media I generally trust (the New York Times and the Atlantic) which described very old ideas as though they were innovations. In the NYT (opinion section) Lisa Margonelli described basic small city bus network planning as though i...
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