Finally a gadget for the social sciences! Check out the 2010 U.S. Election Ratings that Google released this week. It is an online mapping system that tracks projected winners in a number of federal and state political races. The company says its goal is “to make tracking the blues and reds a little easier for armchair pundits.” Google partnered with four nonpartisan, political analyst sources to launch the service. Users can view House, Senate and governor race projections from Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call and RealClearPolitics. The information is presented on a map that’s updated whenever the sources make changes to their data. See the gadget below, or use this link: http://maps.google.com/intl/en_us/2010election/ratings.html
The mapping system is embeddable, Friedman said. The new gadget is powered by Fusion Tables, which directly integrates into Google Maps API v3, the blog post stated, and built on free, commonly available Google technologies.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment