[Editor’s note: Op-Art from the New York Times showing who (which states) supports and opposes health care reform grouped by age and income. Data from 2004, so not current but still informative. Thanks Martin!]
Republished from the New York Times. Nov. 18, 2009.
[Editor’s note: Beautiful map of a blue and red circulation system stretching across the United States with the heart located at Washington, D.C. Selected by a lefty advocacy group as part of their media campaign during the ongoing health care debate. Thanks Laris!]
Republished from The Washington Post. December 2, 2009
Public Option Please, a lefty advocacy group, set out to find a poster artist who could dramatize their argument for government-funded health care. Judges (including Arianna Huffington and Jesse Dylan) found not just a poster artist but a poster girl for their cause. Their winner, Amy Martin of Los Angeles, created her striking image of red and blue blood vessels coursing through a map of the United States when she was home sick with the flu, and a few weeks later, organizers said, lost her job and health insurance. “A healthy United States is dependent on healthy American citizens — which is why I presented America as a vulnerable living system.” She’ll spend her $1,000 winnings on insurance premiums, they said.
[Editor’s note: I’m proud to present POTUS Tracker: Analyzing Obama’s schedule, a new tool from The Washington Post that keeps tabs on President Obama, whom he’s meeting with (over 3,000 people so far), and what they’re discussing (with 17 issue categories and 13 event type codes). It is the second in our Obama Accountability series. The first, Head Count: Tracking Obama’s Appointments, has enjoyed a million visits since launch in April 2009. Data for this project available in RSS and JSON data dump.
I did the Flash interactive (using the Flare visualization package for the opening treemap isue view) and coordinated the project with Karen Yourish. Madonna Lebling and Ryan O’Neil are the genius behind the schedule information and online data presentation. POTUS Tracker was featured on CNN’s State of the Nation (YouTube video) on Sunday, 23 August. With the project out of the way, I can turn my attention back to Natural Earth Vector.]
(Screenshot below) Interact with POTUS Tracker at The Washington Post . . .
CREDIT: Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Madonna Lebling, Karen Yourish, Ryan O’Neil, Wilson Andrews, Jacqueline Kazil, Todd Lindeman, Lucy Shackelford, Paul Volpe
[Editor’s note: The Sunlight Foundation uses a neat little Google Maps hack (see Senate Finance Committee Health Care Influence Cluster: The Democrats) to zoom in and out of a static image sans Zoomify, usually used in these situations. Limitations include having to load the complete image before viewing (does not use cached zoom-based tile sets) but looks to be easy to setup and you get the contextual locator map and zoom, pan controls for free.]
(Screenshot below) Continue to the code . . .
[Editor’s note: This panel-based audio narrative tracks the debate over reforming the United States health-care system, one of the most expensive in the world. The interactive was conceptualized in tandem with a large, full page print graphic and related article.]
Republished from The Washington Post. June 9, 2009
President Obama campaigned on promises to improve the nation’s health system. This summer, Congress will attempt to deliver on the pledge. Remaking a sector that represents one-fifth of the nation’s economy won’t be easy. Here’s a look at the present health system and its challenges, along with some of the solutions under consideration.
Screenshot below. Interact with the original . . .
SOURCES: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Management and Budget, Kaiser Family Foundation, Alliance for Health Reform, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Senate Finance Committee, Commonwealth Fund
Interactive by Karen Yourish, Laura Stanton, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Sarah Lovenheim and Ceci Connolly — The Washington Post
