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Visualizing Bank Failures ( 2008 – 2009 )

Three Takeaways Acceleration: There were four failures in the first six months of 2008, followed by another 22 failures in the next six months.  By January of 2009, there were 21 failures in the first three months of the year, … Continue reading

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Tracking the TARP [From Information Aesthetics]

Information Aesthetics is now highlighting Subsidyscope — a project designed to track how various institutions receive federal monies.  Of particular interest is their visualization of disbursements under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust, the site also contains .csv files … Continue reading

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Google for Government? Broad Representations of Large N DataSets

In our previous post, a post which has generated tremendous interest from a variety of sources, we demonstrated how applying the tools of network science can provide a broad representation for thousands of lines of information.  Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign … Continue reading

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Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (The Image)

As part of our commitment to provide original content, we offer a Computational Legal Studies approach to the study of the current campaign finance environment.  If you click below you can zoom in and read the labels on the institutions … Continue reading

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Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (Documentation for the Network)

  Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to the Senators of the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION By Michael Bommarito & Daniel Katz University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems Department of Political Science BASIC OVERVIEW: 110th Congress … Continue reading

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