by erich on October 3, 2009
The two clusters in the core are roughly split into Democrats (l) and Republicans (r).
Chicago Olympics Bid
Built from data by LittleSis.org. As always, click for larger image.
by erich on September 22, 2009
3.6-times as many former congressional staffers turned health care lobbyists and their immediate connections have network ties closer to former President Bush, than to current President Obama.

The connections in the network map shown below, and used for the analysis above, include people and organizations (e.g. corporate, not-for-profit, public, etc.) the people have been identified with.
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by erich on September 8, 2009
What it look like if you took all of the Mathematics articles from JSOR, the digital journal archive, and mapped co-authorship of the papers? It would look something like this. Interesting to note, that while the distribution does hold to the small world network distribution exponent, there’s some “peakiness” about it that may suggest it’s not really one network, but the merging of several. Given the role of mathematics on so many other subjects, that would not be a surprise.
Largest cluster of co-authorship
Zoomable image with names, after the jump.
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by erich on August 24, 2009
Congrats to the NY Senate for beginning to open more data at http://www.nysenate.gov/opendata!
Here is the network of Senator Allocations of Funding to Community Projects (CPFs): 2009-2010 by Senator or group and zipcode. Line width is proportional to funding allocation.

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Related: how do we define what’s public data? Some transit agencies are claiming copyright over transit performance.
Senator Allocations of Funding to Community Projects (CPFs): 2009-2010