#depth on Twitter

You can find links I used to share more often on this blog by searching for the #depth hashtag on Twitter.

Follow me on Twitter, Delicious and Google Reader

If you’re interested in the kinds of things that interest me on this blog, you can follow me on Twitter, Delicious and Google Reader. I serve an unsteady stream of links that often never make it here. All have RSS feeds you can subscribe to independent of Depth Reporting. My latest updates to those services are also available on Depth Reporting’s right rail. There’s some cross-posting going on, so forgive me for the dupes.

Visualizing U.S. Supreme Court ideology

The Ideological History of the Supreme Court, 1937-2007, is a nice visualization designed by Alex Lundry that uses scores developed by two political scientists to measure where the justices have stood on an “ideological continuum” from liberal to conservative. You can download the visualization in spreadsheet form, play with it and see how it was done. Boiling a judge’s judicial philosophy down to a score is a tricky business, and not everyone likes it. You can get a flavor of that by reading The Distorting Slant of Quantitative Studies of Judging, by a law professor.

 

[via InfoAesthetics]

“100 Awesome Open Source Tools for Writers, Journalists, and Bloggers”

…. from OnlineCourses.org. Actually, some are just so-so (and at least one, Evernote, isn’t open source), but at least they’re free.