Last month I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the White House asking for a list of President Obama’s official trips since he took office. I’m seeking the data not for my day job, but as a personal visualization opportunity (and because presidential travel guru Mark Knoller won’t ... Read more →

A map for our NPR project, StateImpact:  This map visualizes how much the average teacher’s salary has changed since the 2007-08 school year. Darker reds represent deeper pay cuts, while darker greens represent larger salary increases. Click on individual counties to see more specific informat... Read more →

Add Irene to this map of billion-dollar weather disasters. In fact, the storm could be one on of the top 10 costliest ever: See larger PDF version | Source: NOAA Read more →

Hurricane Irene is now gone, though the storm damage is still being felt across the East Coast. In D.C., at least for me, that meant a short disruption in power and a few snapped tree limbs. That’s largely because we didn’t get the high winds:  Here’s wider view:  Source: NOAA | Made with Arc... Read more →

Here’s an oldie but goodie from my previous job at The Texas Tribune — a word cloud of the Gov. Perry’s 2010 book, Fed Up:   “We obtained a digital copy of the book, which has 56,393 words (excluding footnotes and Newt Gingrich’s foreword), and created the cloud below. Not surprisingly, Perry ... Read more →

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Using the NOAA’s cool hurricane tracker, I discovered that Washington, DC, hasn’t received a direct hit from a hurricane in recorded history. (And, of course, Hurricane Irene won’t pass directly over our city either). It has, though, endured three tropical cyclones, all of which were unnamed:  ... Read more →

My favorite hurricane viewer yet, via Google:  Read more →

I thought moving to Texas might spare me the nuisance of hurricanes. I was wrong. Hurricane Irene is churning north through the Atlantic, threatening to knock out power in D.C. — and to do more destructive things elsewhere. With that in mind, I created this map showing all Atlantic hurricane tr... Read more →

Nice GOP fundraising map posted by Development Seed:  Some candidates are lone stars with remote galaxies of support. Others have broad universal reach. Check out the constellations of conservative support on this new interactive map: Made with TileMill | Via Alex Yule Read more →