Over the last two days I looked at the Heatmaps of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as well as news sources and other information about what TextMap is and how I feel about the the service; today I'll look at TextMap Popularity and what it  might mean to both candidates in the next Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

Barack Obama News Source Analysis (above) and Hillary Clinton News Source Analysis (below)

From the looks of it there's a lot more news coverage of Barack than Hillary -What  would be helpful, from my point of view, is to click on the chats above and get the news stories in the media being covered so you can drilldown and compare – esp when the time period overlaps;TextMap does not yet allow you to do that now and is somewhat useless for real analysis.

There's also a sentiment analysis set of charts but I find them difficult to understand.  Maybe all of this information form TextMap is useful to a statistician, but from the point of view for someone that does not use that language – I find it harder to get  much useful out of TextMap yet..even though the TextMap service has a lot of interesting features and is way more interesting, to me, than, say www.Knover.com, which tried to do much the same thing but does not succeed even as well, in my opinion.

Textmap is an intersting service that you can play with – but I would not place much stock in it, for now, just keep an eye on it and hope it gets better. 

The other problem with this service right now is the news sources for each state are way too restrictive and in the case of New York, lacks the New York Times – and I can't imagine this being accurate for New York without it.

Following up on my post yesterday on TextMap – here's a comparison of the heat maps of both Democratic candidates for the next Presidential Election in 2008.  According to Textmap, the definition of a heatmap is:

Heatmap: shows the relative interest in an entity at every locale in the United States. We have developed a geographic model of news influence which enables us to gauge the relative amount of exposure a given entity has received as a function of location.

The heatmaps are actually more relevant because they tell me where Obama is stronger than Hillary and vice versa.  California, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin are moving more towards Obama than Hillary Clinton and that's information that a politician can use even now – but it will get a lot more relevant as the elections loom closer.

I'll cover a little more of what you can do with TextMap on Friday.

A long, long day that's finally ending with some well deserved sleep  – I filmed much of my first day in Paris but was unable to get the software working that would make larger movies so…. here's all the clips in case anyone would like to see what's happening in Paris, at least, for me.

But then, I figured it all out and decided to put most of my Paris Trip Movies all on one page, for easy reference – this page.

In fact, I decided to also add the link for more detail on each video – and most of these are on http://www.artnewyorkcity.com/ - you'll also find the same video there as here.

Trip to Paris on 5-30-07 – Getting There for Marsha Wooley's Painting Trip to Paris and Aix-en-Provence.

First Day in Paris – May 30th, 2007 - Went on a boat ride, viewed Effiel Tower and had a great dinner.  After dinner – went up to the large church, near our hotel and heard a lot of singing.

Au Lapin Agile Cabaret in Paris and other stuff on 5-31-07 - there's a whole story around "The Agile Rabbet".

The Louvre, Monet and various Paris sights on June 1st, 2007 - I was late and the group I was with went to the Louvre ahead of me … I had to find them but could not – so I gave up and enjoyed the view.  Finally, around lunchtime I hooked up with some of my party and found out where the rest were.

Trip to Eugene Delacroix’s Studio on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 - I want to say that I had a sense of the most profound peace while sitting in the garden of Delacroix’s studio; perhaps, I have only felt such peace once or twice in my entire life.

Visiting Paul Cezanne’s Studio and my first day in Aix-en-Provence  – I made my way to Paul Cezanne’s last studio and managed to touch his robe, cap and cane.

At the base of Mont Sainte Victoire at dusk with my friends - We went right up to the base of Mont Sainte Victoire at dusk, and that led me to cancel my trip to Nice the following day and accompany Christine Boulet on a tour of Bibemus plateau which I have a lot of footage I just published.

My trip up rocky plateau of Bibémus, Paul Cezanne's motifs – My guide, Christine Boulet, was wonderful company – but little of that is really translated in this movie and yet, I hope all of that comes though, past the limitations of the medium of Online Streaming Video – via YouTube.

My trip up rocky plateau of Bibémus, Paul Cezanne – Part 2 –

After the first hour, or so, of our walk, we had the sandwiches and Pepsi Light (we brought no water – or sunglasses) – the heat got to be almost unbearable and when we reached a midway point there was a water fountain – near a dam – and I got my shirt all wet, just to deal with the the intense heat/sun.   But then, as the afternoon progressed, it cooled down and rained and that was magical.

Rocky plateau of Bibémus & tree breast & Restaurant later –

Video Part 3 (the longest segment) – also note the Tree Breast at 1 minute into this clip – it’s special and way off the path (you have to climb down to it and it’s not seen from the road). Also, there’s some footage of the best and most expensive restaurant in Aix-en-Provence, Le Clos De La Violette, at the end of the file (but the URL link does not seem to work).