The two clusters in the core are roughly split into Democrats (l) and Republicans (r).

Chicago Olympics Bid

Chicago Olympics Bid

Built from data by LittleSis.org.  As always, click for larger image.

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Health Care Leans Republican

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.

distances

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.

Other trivia: [click to continue…]

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Mathematicians Do It Randomly

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.

JSTOR Mathematics Authors

Largest cluster of co-authorship

Zoomable image with names, after the jump.

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NY Senate and Transparency

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.

communityAllocations

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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

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Foreign Lobbying of NY Congressmen

August 19, 2009

Thanks to ProPublica and Sunlight Foundation: …for the first time digitized one year’s worth of FARA records, making them accessible in a searchable database that allows users to easily follow the money and connect the dots. With the Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker , anyone can quickly learn what governments are lobbying whom, how often and [...]

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Health Care Lobbyists Part Deux

August 11, 2009

Thanks everyone for showing the strong interest in the Lobbyist map.  I got a couple nice mentions at Mother Jones and LittleSis.org, but more importantly, I’ve added in all of the other names in the map. Circles are people, squares are organizations, and white circles are the lobbyists in question. If you’d rather the image [...]

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Best Networked Healthcare Lobbyists? [updated]

August 11, 2009

The Huffington Post, along with public contributors, has been collecting a list of former Congressional staffers turned healthcare lobbyists.  LittleSis.org has been keeping track of these former staffers, and thanks to their API, we now have a social graph of their relationships. Former staffers in white (with names), and the rest of the visual field [...]

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Healthcare and the Senate Finance Committee

August 11, 2009

Late last month, the NY Times had an article about the debate over healthcare legislation taking place in the Senate Finance Committee. Coincidentally, around that time, the folks over at LittleSis, the “free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations,” were kind enough to give me early access to their API (thanks Kevin [...]

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Mahalo: Violating Network Trust for Fun and Profit?

July 23, 2009

I occasionally get Twitter replies to random questions I put out there from people I’m not following, but this one had a surprise: Not only did @answers respond, but also included more info. Intriguing. I followed the link. That’s when I furrowed my brow. The page it took me to demonstrated what I perceive to [...]

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If Facebook were real life

July 15, 2009

Idiots of Ants [via Tomorrow Museum].

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