{"id":618,"date":"2008-11-06T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/618"},"modified":"2008-11-06T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T21:52:53","slug":"us-2008-presidential-election-visualization-at-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/618","title":{"rendered":"U.S. 2008 Presidential Election Visualization at NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times, the \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2008\/results\/president\/map.html\">President Map<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love a good interactive visualization .. these two below show the difference in support for the major parties between the 2008 election and the 2004 and 1992 elections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image8.png\" width=\"432\" height=\"316\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image9.png\" width=\"442\" height=\"316\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a few other visualizations, including a bubble representing how far the leading candidate was ahead of the other:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image10.png\" width=\"455\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times, the \u201cPresident Map.\u201d I love a good interactive visualization .. these two below show the difference in support for the major parties between the 2008 election and the 2004 and 1992 elections. There\u2019s a few other visualizations, including a bubble representing how far the leading candidate was ahead of the other:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-9Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":778,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/778","url_meta":{"origin":618,"position":0},"title":"MIT&rsquo;s: Obama, One People","date":"May 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Really cool visualization of the mobile phone activity around inauguration day on January 20, 2009. 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