Visualizing Obama’s speech with Many Eyes

I confess. I only watched President Obama’s address to Congress with half my attention Tuesday night.
The rest went to updating spokesman.com plugging his speech into a website called Many Eyes, an IBM-owned tool that lets you upload data and create visualizations at no cost.
I posted this tag cloud to spokesman.com, but later at home I [...]

My first video: the caucuses

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What: A video of Spokane voters going to Saturday’s Republican and Democratic Party caucuses
Objective: To get some genuine voices and see what people thought of the process. The primary races this year are attracting record turnout in some states, so I expected an influx of new caucus participants. I wasn’t disappointed, and most of them [...]