Budget Puzzle : You Fix the Budget

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Using Twitter as Your Database - NYTimes.com
►http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/using-twitter-as-your-database-2

Using Twitter as Your Database
By ANDREI SCHEINKMAN
For the 2010 election, we built a continuously updated election guide that let readers explore data related to each of the 509 congressional and gubernatorial races.
After adding candidate information, race ratings, polls, election forecasts, campaign finance numbers and historical election results, we wanted a way for our political reporters to contribute live updates. We imagined them writing short news items and finding links to related stories from The New York Times and other sources, so that each page would reflect the most recent developments in that contest.

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Fil @fil 16/06/2011

C’est assez malinou en effet
Readers are prompted to save (and share) their preferences by posting them to #Twitter. Budget choices are encoded as an alphanumeric query parameter in the expanded URL:
►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=43k6p40v
When it was time to see what choices readers made, it was just a matter of searching for links through the #Topsy #API (which makes it easy to find tweets by the pages they link to, regardless of which URL shortener was used) and decoding the query parameters to the budget decisions they represent.
#data #cms

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Oui. A essayer pour 2012 ?

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