http://state-machine.org money and politics Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://state-machine.org/?p=6 http://state-machine.org/?p=6#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:44:34 +0000 admin http://state-machine.org/blog/?p=6 Btu shows the historical U.S. energy production from 1949 to 2006.

]]> http://state-machine.org/?feed=rss2&p=6 http://state-machine.org/?p=5 http://state-machine.org/?p=5#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:42:34 +0000 admin http://state-machine.org/blog/?p=5 No strings attached shows the connections between PACs and contributors. A video tour is available. Data comes from Sunlight Labs, the FEC and opensecrets.org.

]]> http://state-machine.org/?feed=rss2&p=5 http://state-machine.org/?p=4 http://state-machine.org/?p=4#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:31:17 +0000 admin http://state-machine.org/blog/?p=4 Prevalence explores the relationship between conference attendees and interests.  Interests are derived from word frequency analysis of the submissions received from attendees.  Written for the IM2 conference sponsored by MIT.  Based on the source code for agency

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