{"id":158,"date":"2008-09-25T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-09-25T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:28:32","slug":"fun-with-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/09\/25\/fun-with-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlightfoundation.com\/\">Sunlight Foundation<\/a>  brings us a nifty data animation presentation detailing the increase in contributions from the financial sector over the last two decades (<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techpres\/~3\/402942470\/bailout_datatorial_follow_the_money_from_wall_st_to_dc_1990_present\">HT: TechPresident<\/a>).  it&#8217;s worth a look.  Particularly because it provides visual representation for the relationship between the increase in contributions to Congress and passage of the 1998 Glass-Stenghal legislation that deregulated the financial services sector.  While political scientists debate the direction of the causal arrow: does money effect member ideology or does member ideology affect contributions, it does provide important context for understanding where we are today.  let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dI8m_fgvBQE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunlight Foundation brings us a nifty data animation presentation detailing the increase in contributions from the financial sector over the last two decades (HT: TechPresident). it&#8217;s worth a look. Particularly because it provides visual representation for the relationship between the increase in contributions to Congress and passage of the 1998 Glass-Stenghal legislation that deregulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}