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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Agreement groups in the US Senate Agreement groups in the US Senate May 01, 2012 12:21 am  •  Permalink PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of the agreement groups within the United States Senate over time. As you might imagine, there are two obvious groupings, Republican and Democrat. It gets interesting though when you look at Democrats classified as Republicans and vice versa. For example, the 11 Republicans placed in the Democratic group of the 110th Congress: Most of whom are either moderates or closer to the Democrats than to their own party. Charles Hagel was critic of the Bush Administration which he described as "the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus — almost every area" of any presidency in the last forty years. George Voinovich has been known to oppose lowering taxes and frequently joined the Democrats on tax issues. John Warner is a moderate Republican and has centrist stances on many issues, to the point that he once faced opposition of other members of his own party when he decided to run for re-election. Be sure to click on the gray boxes to follow the trajectories of different cohorts. Sponsored by: More to read: Open source Data Journalism Handbook launched Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated Data and visualization blogs worth following Members Only: How to Make a Sankey Diagram to Show Flow Eating healthiness mapped over 24 hours  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences