Reviews of Websites  

"Anticipating Obamas Inauguration on a City Block in Washington" was created by my O'Leary, Nancy Donaldson, Monica Evanchik, Zach Wise and Graham Roberts with the New York times during the inaugural season. It is a web site where you can tell just by glancing at it and rolling your mouse around that the web site developer spent a lot of time on. The site is about people who live on a city block in Washington DC, which house they live in and on what part of the street. There is a picture for every person and when you slide your mouse across their photo, the house where they live lights up and if you click on the photo a breif description of the person and their viewings on the inauguration come up and well as other pictures of their surroundings. Every time you click on a different street/section of the block, a different set of pictures of people come up as well as the houses on that particular street where the people live. I really dont think the web site can get more detailed than it currently is because it has everything about the person, where they live and what they think, and they houses are all shown in great detail.

"US hospital death rates" by USA today's By William Couch, Joshua Hatch, Anthony DeBarros, Lou Schilling, Steve Sternberg, Jack Gillum and Glenn O'Neal, is a very interesting website. It gives you the option to select a condition (heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia) with the outcome of either death or readmission in whichever state you choose and it gives you the percentage of deaths or readmissions of whichever condition you have selected. It also has a map and allows you to zoon in and out fiding whichever hospital is closest to you, or what hospital you would like to look at and it will give you the general death rate of that hospital. Kind of freaky but kind of cool at the same time.

"Indiana University Basketball Database" produced by Chris Johnson and designed by Jennifer Imes and Chris Johnson is a site that has tine green and red boxes representing all 2,500 games in the history of IU where you can roll over the box to see the score of the game and click the box to go to the year where it leads you to a different page of complete results, photos, and whatever type of information you are looking for. It truley is a cool site that looks like it had some simple time put into it to make a great projext. I like it because it is so very simple yet smart. Its very easy to find the information just by scrolling over the mouse. A very bright idea.