Posts Tagged ‘karen’
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
[Editor’s note: Just in time for the midterms, The Washington Post has relaunched our online politics section, including a nifty interactive map by Kat Downs (lead), Dan Keating, Karen Yourish and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso. The map starts off on House races but also tracks Senate and Governor races. It’s zoomable, panable, has a time slider for past election results. The original linework was generalized using MapShaper.org with manual adjustments to blend in detailed urban districts with more generalized rural districts, resulting in smaller file size, quicker load time, and less ambiguity on which district is which. Please email us with questions or suggestions.]
Republished from The Washington Post.
Will Republicans take control of the house in 2010? Use this map to track all 435 House races, analyse past election results, and drill down to district level data. Post reporters Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza will weigh in regularly on the 25 races you need to know about. SOURCES: Federal Election Commission, U.S. Census Bureau.
Interact with the original at The Washington Post . . .
Two more screenshots, showing generalized urban area linework in the Washington, DC, metro area with thematic attribute “details” panel open and then the advanced filtering options, in this case to pull out swing districts that have rate more than 21% uninsured.
Tags: 2010, congressional, dan, district, Election, filtering, Flash, governor, house, karen, kat, midterms, nvkelso, senate, us
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Election, Flash, Geography, Interactive, Mapping, Maps in the Wild, Self promo | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
[Editor’s note: Great storytelling and numerical analysis of Obama’s 2010 federal budget from The Washington Post. The introductory charting is on a single axis making it easy to compare where the money comes from and where it goes. The next tabs dig deeper, focusing on historical trends (multiple axis) and a look at the surplus/deficit. Kudos to Karen, Laura, Wilson, Jackie! Brand X uses a Tree Map visualization instead.]
Republished from The Washington Post. Feb. 2, 2010.
Interact with the original at The Washington Post . . .
Tags: agency, analysis, budget, deficit, federal, flare, Flash, historical, karen, laura, numerical, obama, revenue, spending, storytelling, surplus, tax, tree map, treemap, trend, twp, wash post, wilson
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, Flash, Interactive, Promote, Software | Comments Off on Taking apart the federal budget (Wash Post)
Monday, July 27th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Tree map charting.]
Republished from The Washington Post.
July 21, 2009. Related article: GOP Focuses Effort To Kill Health Bills
Nearly 60 percent of the health-care industry’s campaign contributions to members of Congress have gone to House and Senate leaders and lawmakers sitting on one of the five committees drafting legislation to reform the nation’s health system.
SOURCE: Center for Responsive Politics | By Karen Yourish and Todd Lindeman – The Washington Post – July 21, 2009
Tags: care, health, karen, post, todd, tree map, twp, wash post
Posted in Charting, General, Print, Promote | Comments Off on Money Talks During Health Reform (Wash Post)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
[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
Tags: audio, health, health care, karen, kelso, laura, narrative, obama, panel, reform, twp, wash post
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, Flash, General, Interactive, Print, Self promo | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
My group interactive Head Count – Tracking Obama’s Appointments from March 2009 received an award from the SND: The Best of Multimedia Design Competition Q1 2009 in the 2a “news” category. This makes it eligible for the annual contest. Not bad for a project that’s gotten over 500,000 page views in 3 months!
Judges Comments:
An incredible set of data coupled with innovative presentation, tracking mechanisms and layers of detailed biographic and editorial information.Comprehensive, sophisticated example of a database-driven graphic. So much information, so many ways to explore it. The cross-linking and interconnectedness of the information is impressive. All in all, an impressive database graphic.
See my earlier post about this project.
Tags: appointments, award, cohen, head count, karen, kelso, laura, multimedia, obama, ryan, sampsel, snd, snd awards, twp, wash post
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, Flash, General, Interactive, Self promo | Comments Off on SND Multimedia Award: Head Count – Tracking Obama’s Appointments
Monday, May 4th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Augmenting textual names with iconic faces can liven up a graphic. Same goes for flags with country names. This graphic from The Washington Post’s Karen Yourish and Laura Stanton does exactly that.]
Republished from The Washington Post, April 2009.
The Confirmation Race
A look at presidential transitions from Reagan to Obama. President Obama needs to fill about 500 government-agency positions that require Senate confirmation.
Related: Heat Count–Tracking Obama’s Appointees.
Tags: appointments, bush, clinton, country, face, flag, karen, laura, obama, photo, picture, reagan, stanton, yourish
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Election, Print, Promote | Comments Off on Leveraging Iconic Photos to Augument Names in Graphics
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Find the trends, group them together, and use that hierarchy (topology) as an access metaphor. And remember geography doesn’t always need to mean map.]
Republished from The Washington Post.
Original publication date: March 29th, 2009.
By Karen Yourish And Todd Lindeman — The Washington Post.
The total amount of the stimulus packages approved by the G-20 countries amounts to $1.6 trillion. More than half of that comes from the United States.
Other maps and graphics that use grouping:
Tags: cartogram, categories, class, classify, economy, g20, global, group, grouping, karen, obama, organizing, post, stimulus, subclass, subgroup, thematic, todd, top-level, topology, twp, us, visualization, wash post, washington post, wp
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, General, Geography, Mapping, Print, Promote | Comments Off on Jump Starting the Global Economy (Wash Post)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The Washington Post won 5 bronze awards in the Malofiej Infographics competition (SND Spain), including one for my interactive graphic District Taxi Fare Estimator published in January 2008.
Full list of Washington Post winners (all print except mine):
- Karen Yourish and Laura Stanton for U.S. History of Black Politicians
- Brenna Maloney and Todd Lindeman for Recession 101
- Brenna Maloney and Todd Lindeman for explanation of the high price of oil/gas
- April Umminger and Laura Stanton for the fireworks preview page
- Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso for the District Taxi Fare Estimator interactive
Read my post on how the interactive was created . . .
Tags: april, award, brenna, brenna maloney, dc, district, karen, karen yourish, kelso, laura, laura stanton, malofiej, Mashup, nista, oindeman, post, snd, spain, taxi fare, todd, twp, umminger, washington
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, General, Interactive, Mapping, Mashup, Self promo | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
[Editor’s note: This graphic from this Sunday’s Washington Post graphically breaks down who benefits from the bill’s spending measures. Most of the effect of the bill would be felt in 2009 and 2010. Thanks Karen!]
Republished from The Washington Post. February 01, 2009
Reporting by Karen Yourish, graphic by Laura Stanton.
Related article: 8 Questions on the Stimulus Package.
The centerpiece of President Obama’s domestic agenda is an $819 billion economic stimulus plan. The Senate will consider the measure this week, with an eye toward the amount of tax cuts and spending. Republicans and Democrats spar over what to consider a tax cut. An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office tallies the tax-cut portion to be significantly less than the one-third Democrats claim it to be.
View full size (screenshot below).
SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office
Tags: bailout, cbo, congress, economy, karen, laura, obama, stimulous
Posted in Charting, Design, General, Print, Promote | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 24th, 2008
[Editor’s note: This interactive which I co-created for the Washington Post keeps tack of president elect Obama’s major cabinet appointees with a fun, game-like interface. See who’s in the running for each position, Obama’s rumored pick, and read bios for officially announced nominees. Many thanks to Aly!]
View original at washingtonpost.com.
Graphic by: Karen Yourish, Laura Stanton and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, The Washington Post
Tags: aly, cabinet, karen, kelso, laura, obama, politics, washpost, wp
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