Sunday, December 18, 2005

"Who gave what now?"



"Do you want to be surrounded by neighbors who think just like you? Or do you prefer people with the opposite political views so you always have someone to argue with?

"Following the Dollar" is a Google map mashup that I found thanks to Mike Pegg’s amazing compendium of mashups, Google Maps Mania. It takes Federal Election Commission data on political donations and superimposes it on a Google map. It’s the work of Matthew Kane, a doctoral student at the Indiana University School of Informatics."

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