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  • NY Senate and Transparency

    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. [click for full-size image] Related: how do we define what’s public data? Some transit agencies…

  • Lower Limits on Social Network Analysis: Just Ask

    Are there lower limits to the size of Social Networks worth analyzing?  The upper limit seems to be a function of how much time (and compute power) you have, but the lower? When we do analyses, these are certain characteristics we look for as verification that our models hold.  A key characteristic is the shape…

  • Social Networks of the Senate

    I always enjoy analyzing social networks (SN’s) that have had a lot less press than the Goliaths of MySpace and Facebook.  I have done an awful lot of them, but one of my favorites was looking at the co-sponsorship patterns in the US Senate, 110th session (the current one). This analysis was especially enjoyable because…