Poll Dancing: How accurate are the polls?
Brilliant visualisation of poll accuracy by informationisbeautiful. They've been getting better but surprisingly large differences between the main polling companies.
Brilliant visualisation of poll accuracy by informationisbeautiful. They've been getting better but surprisingly large differences between the main polling companies.
The Straight Choice does an amazing job in aggregating election leaflets online and this is a brilliant way of visualising their work (via www.twitter.com/ruskin147)
Very funny and gets better as it goes on
I like the way Facebook has done this but still wonder why no-one has aggregated viewer responses for each question as a whole i.e. like the awarding of points within the rounds of a boxing bout.
Even better than the first Prime Ministerial Debate in 15 seconds.
There's another battle going on in this election -- that between different prediction techniques. Should you just ask a sample of people (opinion polls), track what they say (Tweetminster's sentiment analysis) or watch what those who back their views with their own money are doing (betting odds)?
Ambitious -- sum up the entire political spectrum in a single infographic -- but it sort of works
Easily the most amusing thing I've read this week: Clegg as a surrealist Vic Reeves vs Mr Bean and Lord Percy from Blackadder
Grossly unfair of course but also very close to the mark
Slate use Open Calais (Thomson Reuters) to extract tags from stories and anaylse the relationships between news topics. The infographic uses size of circle to indicate importance and distance between circles as strength of relationship. Conceivably this could be useful for newsrooms determining whether to treat stories as self-contained single topic entities or to go for 'wraps' pulling together new developments in closely related topics. Better still, if it were applied to social media content it might give them early warning of emerging topics or relationships.