Very cool election results maps
Most sites had simple maps showing which states voted for Bush in red and which ones voted for Kerry in blue, but a few took the results a few steps further to create a much more detailed -- and colorful -- map of how America voted. Here are four interesting approaches:
USAToday.com broke down the results county-by-county in a color-coded map that let's you compare the results from 2000 and 2004.
CNN.com's main map is a state-by-state look, but when you click on a state, you get a county-by-county color-coded map for that state. Click on a county, and you get exact totals. Very detailed and useful.
Princeton University professor Robert J. Vanderbei used County-by-County election return data from USA Today together with County boundary data from the US Census' Tiger database to produce this color-coded graphic depicting the results of the presidential election. Blue is for the democrats, red is for the Republicans, green is for all others, and each county's color is a mix of these three color components in proportion to the results for that county.
Electoral-Vote.com, meanwhile, takes a geometric rather than purely color-coded approach, weighting the size of each state by its number of electoral votes.
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2 comments about 'Very cool election results maps'Is this a cool map? What about this instead: for all states, county results are presented with shades of blue and red which can be enlarged click any state in the US map:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/
Posted by faciom at November 5, 2004 6:35 AM
Is this a cool map? What about this instead: for all states, county results are presented with shades of blue and red which can be enlarged click any state in the US map:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/
Posted by faciom at November 5, 2004 6:36 AM
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