Congressional-DoD correspondence visualization

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Congressional-DoD correspondence visualization

Posted by Bill Allison, July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Why should the Sunlight Labs guys get all the fun? I loaded the subject lines of the correspondence logs referenced immediately below into Many Eyes, which our co-conspirator Josh Ruihley used to create our Earmarks Visualizations. So what words turn up most frequently in the subject lines of letters members write most frequently about to the Office of the Secretary of Defense? Al Qaeda? Military contracts? National Guard? Body Armor? See for yourself.

Tags: Correspondence Logs · General Real Time

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