http://noahliebman.com/infoviz A project for SI 649: InfoViz Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:08:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After weeks of top-secret research and development, the Change We Can Visualize team is ready to release two lo-fi prototypes. They are both scatter plots, relying on the position, size, and color of each point to relay information to the viewer. All of Congress, One Interest Group The first one shows each ... http://noahliebman.com/infoviz/2009/02/lo-fi-prototypes-lets-give-this-a-shot/ To narrow down our focus for our lo-fi prototype, we spent quite a bit of time researching others' political visualizations. We used them to brainstorm how they could be improved, and discussed where there were opportunities for us to build off of what has already been done. Here are our favorites: Nate ... http://noahliebman.com/infoviz/2009/02/learning-from-others-visualizations/ Based on research we did into what APIs are available and the parameters of the Apps for America contest, we decided to adjust our project focus a bit.  Instead of looking at the federal budget, we've decided to examine special interest group contributions to members of Congress and whether there ... http://noahliebman.com/infoviz/2009/02/our-new-focus/ Our project will incorporate data from APIs in order to visualize the federal government's influence and spending on projects.  This incorporates variables such as money, time, elected officials and their voting/proposals, contributions and from whom, the various projects, and how successful the projects are.  Sunlight Labs is currently running a ... http://noahliebman.com/infoviz/2009/01/our-visualization-information/ Determining who our users are is an important first step before creating an information visualization. For us, this step was a little difficult as we have not yet decided which data set to use for our visualizations. This means that depending on the dataset we choose, our target users may ... http://noahliebman.com/infoviz/2009/01/determining-our-users-personas/