Quick post here. Could probably be a tweet. But I was just messing around with some old data, testing out a different technique in Tableau that I think could be useful, and I ended up creating this: Now, I happen to think this is kind of beautiful. I would love to use it in a finished viz--or, even better, create an animation of it across another dimension and watch the mosaic pulse, and change, and flow over time. But it's meant to be a network diagram. Each node is listed

Lilach Manheim, Andreas Santoso, and I used Python, EasyMorph, and Tableau to take this voteview.com data of historical Congressional roll call votes and perform an analysis of U.S. Senate co-voting patterns since 1967. The full visualization is embedded at the bottom of this post. In this visualization, a BioFabric-style layout is used to show members of the U.S. Senate, and the frequency with which their voting pattern matches exactly with any one of their fellow Senators,