512 Paths to the White House
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512 Paths to the White House
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#2Thanks Jeremy, Shan and Mike. I'm continually blown away by the data journalism you're doing over at nytimes on the election. It's truly an inspiration.
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#3I think this is a great way to explain to someone who's not intimately familiar with electoral politics why people think Obama is going to win despite razor thing polls. Predictions mean nothing of course but:
If Obama wins Florida, Romney has exactly 1 path to victory: winning every other swing state. If Obama wins Ohio, Romney has only 11 ways to win. If Obama loses Florida, Virginia, NC, and Ohio he could still potentially win if he wins the rest of the swing states, all of which he's slightly ahead in in recent polling.
Election day will be interesting, but that's what makes it hard to pundits to predict a Romney victory.
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#4The five ways to tie are the most freaky and stressful.
The only problem with this nifty tree is that it must be followed in order to determine the outcome.
Oh wait, I didn't realize the boxes at the top were selectable. I guess that allows out-of-order traversal.
Only thing I'd like to see added to this is using url hash to bookmark the result set so I can share it.
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#5This is amazing! It's everything a visualization should be: simple, to the point, interactive.
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#6The five ways to tie are the most freaky and stressful. The only problem with this nifty tree is that it must be followed in order to determine the outcome. Oh wait, I didn't realize the boxes at the top were selectable. I guess that allows out-of-order traversal. Only thing I'd like to see added to this is using url hash to bookmark the result set so I can share it.
If you use the buttons at the top, you can in effect zoom the chart to see how it plays out.
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#7Thanks Jeremy, Shan and Mike. I'm continually blown away by the data journalism you're doing over at nytimes on the election. It's truly an inspiration.
Ditto. I'm no fan of the paper, but they're doing things practically every week which are ahead of everyone else in the industry.
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#8Damn, I wish I lived in one of the states that gets to choose our president.
Re: 512 Paths to the White House
#9Thanks Jeremy, Shan and Mike. I'm continually blown away by the data journalism you're doing over at nytimes on the election. It's truly an inspiration.
Ditto. I'm no fan of the paper, but they're doing things practically every week which are ahead of everyone else in the industry.
Agree. Idea of having "reactive" documents came up in another HN thread recently, and this seems to be an implementation of such. Very cool.
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#10Does anyone know if I should be as scared as I am that there are 5 paths to tie? Is that the norm in a presidential election? because it sounds crazy.