This is so simple, it’s cool: http://envisioningdevelopment.net/map
I especially like the hourglass-like effect way of populating the columns. It gives one the feel of really counting things. Like when you switch between East Harlem and the Upper East Side.
I would like to be able to see the distribution over the whole city, or the gradients between neighborhoods, but that’s just me. I think the design is neat and clean, and tells a very compelling story.
When considering a nested comment implementation, we really only have to deal with two types of comment: root comments and child or nest comments. Root comments are easy to describe. They are not a child of any other comment. They’re what you get when someone has a brilliant new insight, hits the “New Comment” button and dazzles us all. Nest comments, on the other hand, seem like they should be more complicated. If you’re allowing replies to comments, then a nest comment could have its own nests. Wouldn’t that make a comment both a nest and a root? Not in this post. For the purposes of this example: roots don’t have parents; everything else is a nest. Simple.
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