complete listings of all the public polls available for the most competitive races for Senate and Governor with an important bonus: Interactive charts that show you how the poll results compare to each other as well as trends over time.

Social Data Browsing -Lev ManovichWe can switch between multiple views of data, traverse different scales, and move between multiple media. What types of representation can be created if we combine techniques to gather, structure and display data?

an art installation that represent the casualties in news reports as an ever-increasing random constellation of bright yellow candy.

Pageview counts are as suseptible as hit counts to site design decisions that have nothing to do with actual usage. Part of the reason MySpace drives such an amazing number of pageviews is because their site design is so terrible.

trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by del.icio.us. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past sixty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts.

The 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it.

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories.

An exploration of human emotion, in six movementsby Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar

You can analyze and evaluate a given news site by comparing its “Googleshare” of particular topics with other news sites.