16. Information as Process
Information as Process
WSJ Interactive Features
• State by State Unemployment Rates: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JOBSMAP09.html
State‐by‐State Unemployment Rates: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JOBSMAP09.html
• Immigration Slow Down Data:
• http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_CENSUS0921_20090922.html
• Timeline Two Years in the Credit Crisis:
Timeline‐ Two Years in the Credit Crisis:
• http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Two‐Years‐of‐Market‐Turmoil.html
NYT Interactive Features
• 2008 Election Results:
• http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
http://elections nytimes com/2008/results/president/map html
• The Debt Trap
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/07/20/business/20debt‐trap.html
• Murder New York City:
Murder – New York City:
• http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
Research support provided by Bryan Woliner
22. FiveThirtyEight rates the errors of polls – and
produces quite accurate statistical models
produces quite accurate statistical models
FiveThirtyEight.com has 17,800 links whereas NYTimes.com has 12,800
24. Amazon: Most helpful positive and negative ratings of “Audacity of Hope”
Slashdot: Five star “Funny” and “Insightful” comments on Dam Burst
program to get around China’s Green Dam censoring software.