Found at LA Recycling Center, where a lot of waste pickers sell the cans, bottles and metals they collect.
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Infography: Interventions at OccupyBoston General Assembly Jan. 10th 2012
As I happened to be the time keeper for the GA, I thought it could be a good idea to make something useful with the data I had written in my notebook. The duration limit for the interventions was 3 minutes. Around 12 people, from the aprox. 39 different who spoke, exceeded the 3 minutes limit.
You can also read the transcripts of the polemic GA: http://bit.ly/OBga120110
Update: the raw data used to make the graphic http://bit.ly/OBGA2012jan10duration
Note: After some feedback: I figured out that the classification by sex would be problem. I decided to go anyway assuming that difficulty-arbitrary
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Pista de hielo en el Boston Commons
OccupyBoston General Assembly December 15th 2011
Panorama photo of Occupy Boston General Assembly (GA) in Emmanuel Churh (15 Newbury Street, Boston) on December 15th 2011.
After being evicted from Dewey Square on December 10th, Occupy Boston continues with their activities and GA i nseveral places in the city: Boston Common, St. Paul Cathedral, this emmanuel Church, and many other places. The movement keeps moving!
Surface in Newspapers front pages vs. Twitter about #ows #Occupy until December 13th
Update Dec. 18th 17.21h: added cumulutative tweets, details of # of tweets at certain moments.
Twitter data from r-shief.org in the #occupydata hackathon.
More info about the hackathon and http://bit.ly/occupyhackathon.
Comparison in US and Spanish Newspapers’ front pages about Japanese Tsunami
Here we compare how newspapers in US and in Spain cover the Japanese Tsunami (March 2011).
The aim of this comparision is to see:
- How different coverage they have towards international news.
- How long one single event (news) last in time.
- Spanish newspaper have less news per front page, they are more what are called her “dailys”: smaller in size and elongate format.
See table bellow. How that affects the use of front page space.
Table: Number of news in the front page of main Spanish and US newspapers
See full table and data.
Example:
Name: average of number of articles per front page
Spanish
El País: 7.5
El Mundo: 7.5
ABC: 4.5
La Vanguardia: 5.1
La Razón: 4.9
Público: 4.6
USA
WSJ: 34.8 (28,0 short news)
The Washington post: 13.1
The New York times: 15.5
The Boston Globe: 17.7 (9.2 short news)
USA Today: 13.0
Los Ángeles Times: 9.7
Source: data extracted from a random period of 21 days.
The chart. See the data behind in the spreadsheet: