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November 08, 2004
Pleasing Information Design
From the recent election, a collection of pleasing information design for both the red and blue parts of the country:
How America voted, county by county, over the last two elections, and compared. From Ron Caron's Blog.
Tannenbaum's site shows a similar map--better data, worse design.
Small multiples of the Electoral College, 1940-2004. However, I think that the presentation of the multiples in movie form is less information-rich than on page, due to the forced-linear nature of the movie. Better to peruse non-linearly and use the data presented to draw your own conclusions.
Finally, LawGeek links to a gradient map of voting by counties.
Does the Red/Blue America meme give anyone else funny plot ideas for Red vs. Blue? Perhaps this is just a subconcious reflection of my anticipation of Halo 2.
Update: Two new maps. A new map, from the service used by CBS, gives a weird curved-earth 3D view of how America voted by county. I know that curved-earth view has a proper name...any cartography nerds out there? Second, those craazy Wolverine grad students have some mind-bending warps of the US election, by county, based on population.
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