How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

I've worked on real-time displays of election results data in a newsroom setting, so I know how much planning goes into something like this. This looks great!

Re: How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

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Post by rhizome » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

willwhite wrote: post #4

rhizome wrote: post #2

I was hoping for some code listings.

http://i.usatoday.net/news/graphics/elections-2012-app/dist/...

Yeah, that's a little unwieldy.

Re: How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

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Post by rhizome » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC

dhcole1 wrote: post #3

rhizome wrote: post #2

I was hoping for some code listings.

Sure, what are you looking for?

Less narrative, I guess, but I think that's just a different preference of meaning for "how."

Re: How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

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Post by dhcole1 » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #7

dhcole1 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, what are you looking for?

Less narrative, I guess, but I think that's just a different preference of meaning for "how."

Ok, well if there's anything specific, I'm happy to post some gists.

Re: How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

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Post by wpietri » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 6:28 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #7

dhcole1 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, what are you looking for?

Less narrative, I guess, but I think that's just a different preference of meaning for "how."

Personally, I loved the narrative. Which I mention not to suggest you shouldn't want something else, but so that the authors know that people liked it as is.

Re: How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps

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Post by danso » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 6:40 PM UTC

I learned about this: R2D3:

> Since it doesn’t get bogged down with supporting legacy browsers without SVG support, we switched over to R2D3 for versions of Internet Explorer less than IE9. https://github.com/mhemesath/r2d3/

It's that easy to provide IE support for D3?