As a daily commuter in the Bay Area, I have been excited at the prospect of improved public transportation here. The high speed rail, the BART extension, the subway in San Francisco. I was doubly excited to hear Obama’s commitment to national infrastructure improvement during his State of the Union. Now to hear that Congress [...]
It is obvious that President Obama’s team already knew what they were going to do with the White House website before they got there. It looks great and is very usable, informative and elegant.
Visualization of Obama’s Inaugural Speech. You are able to interact and adjust the visualization, not just a static image. This is just one of many visualizations available on the IBM Many Eyes site. I am intrigued with the dynamic abilities of programs and powerful computers to integrate and display complex relational databases as well as [...]
original post HERE. The historic U.S. Presidential election has come to an end with Barack Obama emerging victorious against John McCain. Obama will become the forty-fourth President of the United States and the first African-American to be elected for the highest office. * “To restore America’s competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science [...]