An article has been posted to Institute for Analytic Journalism

[Tom Johnson]

Full article link: http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2009/9/7/4313771.html

The Evolution of Darwin's Ideas

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FlowingData passes along the link to this fine piece of work by Ben Fry.  "Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas" Journos could be using a similar approach to analyze the evolution of the ideas of public officials.

Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas

Posted by Nathan / Sep 7, 2009 to Artistic Visualization / 2 comments

"Ben Fry, well-known for Processing and plenty of other data goodness, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/benfry.com/writing/archives/529');" href="http://benfry.com/writing/archives/529">announced his most recent piece, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/benfry.com/traces/');" href="http://benfry.com/traces/">On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, made possible by <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/darwin-online.org.uk/');" href="http://darwin-online.org.uk/">The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online...

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