This week, The Wall Street Journal rolled out its Political Moneyball graphic, a visualization of the connections between political action committees, super PACS, campaigns and individuals. Based on the latest official Federal Election Commission data for the 2012 election, the project visualizes more than one million connections between donors and committees. The data is updated every month.

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Restaurant Week in New York City, and in order to commemorate its longevity, the dining celebration has been extended to a very un-weekly 20+ days, creating a somewhat good problem for New Yorkers to have.

Doctors of the World is a healthcare and humanitarian aid charity working worldwide to provide solutions that improve health and save lives. Its Spanish branch is launching this week the campaign “The health virus”, an initiative to raise awareness of the global right to health focused on the maternal health challenge —every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy.

Putting data to work. That’s the next step of the open data movement and the theme of the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC), starting today at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington. World Bank’s president Jim Young Kim first public speech is kicking off the meeting, co-sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration, Data.gov, the World Bank Open Data Initiative and the Open Development Technology Alliance.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published today its first interactive map on the 2012 election. The map is part of an ongoing, regularly updated full election coverage. All data analysis and storage is done with CartoDB. The final election map is built through CartoDB API’s and the Leaflet map library.

Lots of things going on lately, we’re sorry we haven’t been able to update the blog. We’ve been attending interesting meetings here and there (Paris, Berlin, NY, Madrid”), giving workshops, releasing new updates, and working on a new set of functionalities to be included in the next version of CartoDB. If you follow the blog of Vizzuality (the developers of CartoDB), you may know by now that we’re also launching new projects —check out the Endangered Languages Project collaborative effort. More to come in the following weeks.

In 1943, four NYC newspapers published a local market analysis aimed at advertisers. The document was based on the 1940 Census and included hundreds of photos & color-coded maps portraying the geographic patterns of monthly rent levels across the city. It also featured statistics and short narratives about the neighborhoods.

Which are the blocks in New York City that had the most New York Police Department stops in 2011?

If you live in NYC, you’ve probably heard about a new bike-share program that will come to life this summer. The program will be launched with around 420 stations and is scheduled to grow to some 10,000 bikes and 600 rental stations throughout the city by summer 2013.