Webdogs 3.0 » nyt http://webdogs.org site sentient since 2006 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:17:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The best GIS map. Ever. http://webdogs.org/2010/12/16/the-best-gis-map-ever/ http://webdogs.org/2010/12/16/the-best-gis-map-ever/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:48:41 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=2063

You’ve got to see this to believe it. The New York Times has pushed its Mapping America project to a whole new level with Mapping America: Every City, Every Block. Pop in an address, zip code or city and you get visualizations of race, ethnicity, income, housing and education census data from 2005-2009, for every census tract in the United States.

The debut of this latest GIS mapping project from the Times is a companion piece to Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities, detailing more recent migration patterns of immigrant families in the United States.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2010/12/16/the-best-gis-map-ever/feed/ 0 Revisiting web stats for the California Food Stamp Guide http://webdogs.org/2010/02/11/revisiting-web-stats-for-the-california-food-stamp-guide/ http://webdogs.org/2010/02/11/revisiting-web-stats-for-the-california-food-stamp-guide/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:28:48 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=1239

Part of its ongoing “Safety Net” series, this morning’s New York Times features Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance, a story about the increasing demand for food stamps. In an earlier article, the NYT published one of its peerless national maps illustrating food stamp usage across the country. (“The number of food stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children.”)

This historic escalation is reflected in the web stats for the California Food Stamp Guide. A year ago, we drew attention to how the usage patterns at the FSG were a sign of the economic times. If so, then it has only gotten worse. Since then, as illustrated below, current Google Analytics for the FSG show monthly visitor sessions have increased to nearly 10,700 (a 52% increase), with over 101,000 page views (a 27% increase) and a bounce rate of only 0.25%. Annualized, this increase in the monthly usage rates of the FSG comes to more than 128,000 visitor sessions and 1,216,000 page views.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2010/02/11/revisiting-web-stats-for-the-california-food-stamp-guide/feed/ 0 Dealin’ with the down and out, at the iPanic app store http://webdogs.org/2009/06/07/dealin-with-the-down-and-out-at-the-ipanic-app-store/ http://webdogs.org/2009/06/07/dealin-with-the-down-and-out-at-the-ipanic-app-store/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:59:29 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=584 It’s a republication from last September but a worthy one, today’s Op-ed art on the back page of the New York Times’ This Week section – iPanic: Helping you deal with the loss of your life savings, one app at a time. “The fetish that’s a phone on the only network that’s an option gets even more practical, with apps for navigating your newfound destitution.”

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2009/03/18/12-angry-twitters/feed/ 0 Visually analyzing immigration patterns and student diversity http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/ http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:28 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/?p=530 This is a cross-post from the LSNC Advocate Feed but it is worth noting here as well: Today’s New York Times features Immigration Explorer, an interactive GIS map based on census data revealing settlement patterns for 20+ foreign-born groups between 1880 and 2000. The Immigration Explorer map is simply a companion piece to the NYT’s “Remade in America,” with today’s feature article about Diversity in the Classroom, which itself has a separate interactive statistical graph illustrating how student demographics break out by state and county and school district. For example, the Grant Joint Union High school district in Sacramento County, California.

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]]> http://webdogs.org/2009/03/15/visually-analyzing-immigration-patterns-and-student-diversity/feed/ 0 On being a “Mac”-like motivator http://webdogs.org/2008/02/04/on-being-a-mac-like-motivator/ http://webdogs.org/2008/02/04/on-being-a-mac-like-motivator/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:42:50 +0000 Brian Lawlor http://www.webdogs.org/2008/02/04/on-being-a-mac-like-motivator/ Who cares about the Super Bowl. The real game is all about tomorrow’s “Super Tuesday” primary shootout. And the New York Times today has an especially apt and timely article given this current political zeitgeist and the high drama of tomorrow’s national political bloodbath: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?.

And more transcendently, it’s a fascinating piece about how design affects or reflects the user’s world view.

To coin a phrase, “Barack the Vote,” people!

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