Fishnette

These are preliminary Senate and House maps from the Colorado Reapportionment Commission. You may also see them here, along with maps of current districts.

Here’s a Google Fusion map showing Colorado’s 35 Senate districts and the population they’re over or under the requirement for 2011 redrawing of legislative districts. You can see the interactive version by scrolling down on this page.

My first Google Fusion map! Below is a screenshot, but you can see the interactive map here.

i’m pretty excited to accomplish this, thanks to IRE sessions by Daniel Lathrop, Matt Stiles and Kathryn Hurley of Google.

Next i’ll do a state Senate map, then i’m going to add some data about party registration and who currently represents the districts… Would love to hear feedback on this map!

Here’s a little Google Fusion chart i did for a Politics Daily story last summer and just updated:

Clearly, i have some logistics to clean up here to fit such things on this tumblr. Suggestions are welcome! Gotta ride my bike tho… more later!

In the People’s Republic of Boulder… tho i had a wonderful time visiting friends in Tallahassee and Orlando and meeting new folks at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference.

There are several things i want to try out after attending IRE. i’ve already downloaded and started using TimeFlow, a great timeline tool (Sarah Cohen has more info here) tho not for publication. At some point, i’d like to try out ProPublica’s TimeLineSetter, tho i’ll probably use Dipity first, because it’ll be easier for me.

Also excited about Google Fusion, which i hope to do a few little mapping things on soon. Matt Stiles and Kathryn Hurley did a great session on that, with some of the info at this site. And the session on audio by Daniel Zwerdling and Joe Shapiro from NPR was super-useful, really great (i’d heard all the stories they played).

Really missed getting to see and learn from Michelle Minkoff, tho. You’d have helped with the gender balance, tho it needs a lot more help. Thinking of you and wishing you well.

knowing some gifts are fleeting…

Today, i’m remembering my friend Chris, gone in an instant 10 years ago today after a lightning strike on a Florida beach. We had great times working together and i still wonder what he’d think of what goes on in Boulder and the world of journalism these days.

Thinking of Chris reminds me also of my friend Catherine, taken by a lighting strike in 1995 on Mount Princeton.

And, every day my thoughts go out to my friends Paula and Chris. The title of this post is the message of their Christmas card in December, which arrived just days before their sweet, precious Wyatt succumbed to spinal muscular atrophy at just 5 months.

I hold their message to cherish every day in my heart each and every day, but especially today as i remember Chris, Catherine and now Wyatt.