Nick and I have been working on this one for a few weeks now, as time has permitted. It involved visualizing over 1.4 million rows of data provided by the Federal Electoral Commission to examine patterns in the types of donations given to both presidential candidates running this election. Read more about it >
I’m on a quest, searching for data about the elections (if you know of any resources I should look at, send them over). One of my searches brought me to the FoxNews website. It shocks me that people actually use this as their reliable source of news. Before I go off on a tangent about my perspectives on Republicans and what they’ve done to this country (and the world), I will focus on a diagram I found on the FoxNew > World > Europe page. This diagram tops my list of terrible diagrams that I’ve seen this year. The geographical representation of each country is an embarrassment and I’d love to hear from the person who came up with this what in the hell he was thinking. Anyway.. pretty funny…. and sad.
Next weekend is FlashBelt in Minneapolis, MN. This is probably my favorite conference because of the size (small enough so you can speak with speakers), the organization and because Minneapolis is a great city. I can’t make it out there this year because I’m currently in Croatia and am having a wedding on that very weekend, but I would definitely point anyone to this conference who is interested in improving their Flash skills, searching for inspiration (there’s more than plenty this year), or curious about what’s new out there in the world.
It’s definitely an event worth going to. Check it out.