Sketchflow » admin http://www.sketchflow.com Visual Interface Design and Media Concepts Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Letters to the President: Process Improvement http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/05/letters-to-the-president/ http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/05/letters-to-the-president/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 22:43:19 +0000 admin http://www.sketchflow.com/?p=302 In response to the recent NYTimes piece about the process by which the White House sorts through thousands of letters addressed to Obama, I was thinking about the process that they use.

This is the CURRENT PROCESS:


This is what they COULD DO:

To what extent are they running the email, snail mail, and faxes through recognition software and statistics & charting software to summarize the contents of incoming correspondence? I hope that Mr. Kelleher is providing some additional info in addition to hand-selecting a few letters.

]]> http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/05/letters-to-the-president/feed/ 2 Guy Kawasaki + Wordle: Let’s Get Specific http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/04/guy-kawasaki-wordle-lets-get-specific/ http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/04/guy-kawasaki-wordle-lets-get-specific/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 03:30:21 +0000 admin http://www.sketchflow.com/?p=281 What has Guy blogged about in the past two weeks? (April 14 – April 27)

Wordle grabs his last five posts from his RSS feed, and with some help from Excel, we can create some more tailored views of His Wordliness. Guy, I tried following you on Twitter but your stream is so voluminous that I couldn’t see my other dear friends!

Proper Nouns


Words That Appear Only Once

Top 20 Words

Top 75 Words

http://www.wordle.net/

Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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]]> http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/02/seeingfinancecom/feed/ 0 PresidentialWatch08: Political Blogosphere Visualization http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/01/presidentialwatch08-political-blogosphere-visualization/ http://www.sketchflow.com/2009/01/presidentialwatch08-political-blogosphere-visualization/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:41:16 +0000 admin http://www.sketchflow.com/?p=222 Via visualcomplexity, this is a visualization that I often find myself returning to in my thoughts. It shows the relative leanings of and links among political blogs, with a lot of options for filtering and summarizing the display.



Launch the application here.

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Data Source: Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)

]]> http://www.sketchflow.com/2008/10/mccain-and-obama-personal-net-worth-and-income/feed/ 1 Obama’s Personal Income http://www.sketchflow.com/2008/10/obamas-income-2004-2007/ http://www.sketchflow.com/2008/10/obamas-income-2004-2007/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:39 +0000 admin http://www.sketchflow.com/?p=116 These donut charts present Obama’s personal income disclosed for the years 2004 to 2007. If text labels are outside the viewing area, right click in each chart and select “Enable Rotation”, and then drag the donuts to rotate them. The total annual figures include only Barack’s income. Spousal (Michelle’s) income is entered as values ending with 9,999; the actual values are undisclosed.







Data source: Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)

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