The campaign for the Census was a beast and the teams that toiled long and hard have a lot to be proud of. Here are some of the pieces I managed to work into the mix.

The Participation Map utilizes a Google map Flash API to take real-time feeds from the Census Bureau of how many forms were being mailed back every day. The map was used to create challenges among politicians, inspire communities to compete for the best numbers, and could be crunched in a variety of cool infographic ways. Local officials and bloggers also could grab a widget of the real time feed to display on their own sites.

We got a bunch of press. This one had the best headline;
"Watch America procrastinate NOW!"



See the map in action

The iPhone app

The app hasn't launched quite yet, as we had to wait for the mailback phase of the campaign to be completed. But it's basically a data geek's wet dream, with geolocated Census data fed into your device for wherever you happen to be standing at the moment.