Strange Maps has a cartogram showing the proportion of breaking news stories in the U.S. You might notice that Georgia is larger than Texas – some of the commenters point out that during the time the news stories were extracted (1994 to 1998), Atlanta was getting a lot of coverage because of the Olympics.
Meanwhile, from Marginal Revolution:
Federal spending is lower in areas where there is less press coverage of the local members of congress.
Previously: The singles scene
Tags: breaking news, maps
Also, CNN.
Ooh, I was just about to come back here and update this post with that.
Speaking of cartograms, I was doing research last year when I found this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cartlinearlarge.png
It maps population and cross-sections the data, by color, with the 2004 Presidential Election. I still think about this sometimes when I wake up in the morning; there’s something very true, a little terrifying, and yet still comforting about that image.
The country is a lot more purple than people think. For instance, Mississippi (my home state) voted Obama in the primary this year in almost a landslide vote. But then again, that was just a primary. Who will they vote for in November? I think it’ll likely be a certain Caucasian (and male) candidate.