While I think this is a great idea (and similar to things I've been slowly working on in spare time), I don't think that the execution really does "Fair" or "Fact based" justice.<p>The facts that are presented are pretty minimal - while I may agree with some of the conclusions that seem to be pushed by it, it doesn't feel like a general-use tool in order to provide better information. It feels like a presentation with specific goals.<p>EDIT:
I think a better way of phrasing what bothers me about this is:
It focuses on making the presentation of the data compelling. That's a good thing - if the presentation is compelling, people are likely to engage and learn. However, here that seems to have been accomplished in an "editorial" way - by hand-selecting things. Compelling presentation of data will be meaningful and honest when it can happen with minimal editorial influence. This is (or at least appears to be) completely hand-selected.
Fact based, data centric news can still be quite biased through selection of detail, so Im not sure its any more trustworthy than an article.<p>Love the site though, really well done.
It's our (rndmize and my) attempt at creating a sane approach to the news. do you feel like something like this useful? if not, how can we make it more so?
Data is great, it lets you make your own conclusions. There still remains an element of trust though, in the provider of the data. It's certainly a step above bloat-filled news articles though.
Glad to see that more and more people think about data-driven blogging. We've done small project[1] in this area -- embeddable live trend charts based on Google Finance and Google Analytics data where trends can be commented right in charts. Initially, we thought this could help explain trend reasons. But we saw no traction and switched to another project.
[1] <a href="http://explainum.com" rel="nofollow">http://explainum.com</a>
I really liked this. I liked how easy it was to see all the data, even if it wasn't the most relevant data, and if it wasn't very relevant I would have liked to be able to fish into sources. I just wish there was an easy way to for me to delve into those sources, or find related news from other sites. Like a "these articles give opinion on this issue".<p>Great stuff.
I like it. It's a much more polished version of something I tried to do with <a href="http://www.facster.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.facster.com</a> back in 2005. I was writing blog style stories to go with queries of statistical abstract data. The stories are gone now, but you can still query the DB.
Now that is quite an amazing site. I'll definitely be checking it out again.<p>BTW, a minor correction. From the "Instant Tour":<p>> The right column of any Summary tab is facts, the left is analysis.<p>I think you got "right" and "left" backwards.