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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAstoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trumps Business Ties
Source: Wired
Before Donald Trump was the president, he was a businessman. He came to office leading a vast business enterprise that includes real estate, casinos, and a lucrative branding operation. The network is huge, says designer Kim Albrecht, whose riveting data visualization Trump Connections attempts to untangle it all.
Albrecht used data from BuzzFeeds TrumpWorld investigation into the presidents 1,500-odd business connections to create two visualizations. The first places Trump at the center of an enormous web. The other, which resembles a family tree, deconstructs that network person by person, business by business. Its a complete mess if you look at the entire dataset, Albrecht says.
An interactive version of the data viz lets you click on a name or business to view an expanded list of connections. For instance, clicking on Donald Trump brings up what seems like an endless list of corporations of which he is president. Albrecht organizes the data into a tree denoting the presidents relationship people in the organization.
Anyone with more than one connection is bolded and hyperlinked, dropping you into a rabbit hole of connections. Clicking on Josh Kushner (Jareds brother), leads to page listing familiar tech companies hes involved in. Click on Melania Trump and youll see all the ways shes connected to her husbands businesses.
More: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/kim-albrecht-trump-data-viz/?mbid=social_twitter
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Astoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trumps Business Ties (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jan 2017
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BSdetect
(8,998 posts)1. So no comflicts eh?
When some mentions conflicts I think he hears cornflakes.
demmiblue
(36,841 posts)3. Nothing to see here... move along.
The first thing I thought of was, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave..."
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)2. K&R