via theatlantic:
Study: No News is Better Than Fox News
A survey by Farleigh Dickinson University asked 1,185 random people about their news consumption and also random questions about domestic and current events like whether Bashar al-Assad was still in power, the American unemployment rate, and which party holds the most seats in the House of Representatives right now. And this is what they found:
The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.
Vote: Finalists in Nielsen's DataViz contest
Earlier this year Nielsen launched a data visualization contest, and now the list of entries has been narrowed down to 5; vote for your favorite on their website.
Six months out from Election Day, here’s my 2012 electoral map scenario. You can build your own electoral map using this neat interactive data visualization from the NYTimes.
Shepard Smith reacts to Mitt Romney reacting to Newt Gingrich quitting (by dkostv)
“Politics is weird, and creepy…and now I know lacks even the even loosest attachement to anything like reality”
A truth of titanic inconvenience…
via nickrrrad:
Obligatory Friday the 13th pic.
Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.
World Map of all wars and conflicts happening in 2012. The world doesn’t seem like a very nice place right now…
Word Cloud of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address, using the 50 most mentioned words (and removing common words like “and” and “the”), built using Wordle.
President Obama’s State of the Union: What were the most Tweet-worthy moments?
As an awkward hush fell over the US Congress while President Obama was chuckling over (hypothetical) spilled milk, Twitter was on fire with people yucking it up at the president’s expense. Click the chart to see all the other highlights including some top tweets from both sides of the political spectrum.
