How We Know Us

Tag: visualization

  • Determining Application Performance Profiles in the Cloud

    I want to know how to characterize my workloads in the cloud. With that, I should be able to find systems both over-provisioned and resource starved to aid in right-sizing and capacity planning. CloudForms by Red Hat can do these at the system level, which is where you would most likely take any actions, but I want…

  • Palin’s Email Network

    Lots of cleanup left to do in the code parsing/cleaning up the emails, but here’s a first pass.  Seems like at least two connected networks, and surprisingly both the yahoo and the Gov’t email addresses are both in the larger one.  I wonder what the smaller one comprises of? A very big thanks to the…

  • Visualizing Conversation Clusters on Twitter

    2.5 million tweeters having 11 million conversations.  Pay attention to the clustering. Song: Dance on Vaseline (Thievery Corporation Remix) by David Byrne (YouTube link here)

  • Health Care Leans Republican

    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…

  • Mathematicians Do It Randomly

    What it look like if you took all of the Mathematics articles from JSTOR, 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…

  • Foreign Lobbying of NY Congressmen

    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…

  • Health Care Lobbyists Part Deux

    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…

  • Best Networked Healthcare Lobbyists? [updated]

    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…

  • Healthcare and the Senate Finance Committee

    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…

  • Election Influence by 527’s: Browsable Map

    I wanted to put out what’s been done so far on making yesterday’s post more interactive. There’s an awful lot that could be better about this map. Particularly legibility of labels in the core (it’s just too dense). If you want to see names, I suggest looking at the edges of the map. Michael Bommarito…