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"Wicks-Lim, Jeannette | Pollin, Robert An Economic Analysis of the Nashville Living Wage Proposals Publication Date: 11/1/2009"

"Pollin, Robert | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: An Updated Analysis Publication Date: 1/26/2010"

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. The magic is when an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. Information visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data. We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.

"New analysis of 40-year-old recording of Kent State shootings reveals that Ohio Guard was given an order to prepare to fire"

NPR's Richard Harris has learned that much more oil, 70,000 barrels a day or more than ten times the official estimate, is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon pipe, based on scientific analysis of the video released Wednesday.

Intense, potent video about foreclosed home in California, where the 'depressed' and bankrupt (spiritually as well as financially) family left ALL their possessions behind--including family photos... http://serve.castfire.com/video/26078/26078_2008-09-25-215549.mp4

Lewis F. Powell Jr., "The Powell Memo," ReclaimDemocracy.org (August 23, 1971)

"Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill"

In '95, Kagan Thought Nomination Process Was A 'Charade'