FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted
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#3Mike Bostock of D3 fame is basically unrivaled in data visualization using HTML, SVG, and JS:
Most of the code is open source, too:
Awesome that he's working at the NYT alongside people like Nate Silver.
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#4I would love to be able to switch to a visualization where each state is tracked by color according to how it votes now. (Or even better, starting at a random date.) That would make the great long-term swap between Republicans and Democrats much more obvious.
Yes, we can mouse-over. But you can't easily mouse-over, scroll, and keep the mouse-over going.
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#5It's not surprising to see the swaying support from citizens. What I'm curious about is given its a mixed economy and given the scale of the government (making change difficult), how much variability/difference is there between what the two parties can accomplish?
I wouldn't be surprised to see that difference is quite narrow (10%). Although it's hard to quantify this stuff.
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#6Really interesting to see that the states weren't as split in most elections pre-Bush Sr.
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#7Mike Bostock of D3 fame is basically unrivaled in data visualization using HTML, SVG, and JS: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ Most of the code is open source, too: https://github.com/mbostock Awesome that he's working at the NYT alongside people like Nate Silver.
I agree, this is a really, really cool visualization of something that would otherwise be rather difficult to understand. I've always known about the "Southern switch" but something like this really highlights it. Alabama in particular had a almost 83% change in the vote from 1960 to 1964 and a 73% swing back in 1968! It's also cool to see the slowly cyclical nature of the elections, although the wild swings from one party to another seem to have slowed down quite a bit.
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#8I am always astonished by what an outlier DC is.
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#9I would love to be able to switch to a visualization where each state is tracked by color according to how it votes now . (Or even better, starting at a random date.) That would make the great long-term swap between Republicans and Democrats much more obvious. Yes, we can mouse-over. But you can't easily mouse-over, scroll, and keep the mouse-over going.
I wish we could click on a state and it would stay highlighted. That would be much easier, in my opinion.
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#10I am always astonished by what an outlier DC is.
I'm not. If you ever visit, it's pretty clear where each economic group lives. Practically anyone with money who works in DC lives in VA or MD. DC has the highest ghetto per capita in the world.