{"id":19,"date":"2008-11-07T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T00:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:52:59","slug":"the-election-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/the-election-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The election at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.axismaps.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/a-new-kind-of-election-map\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/night_election_redblue.jpg\" alt=\"Election results by county with population\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working on putting together a few election maps and and graphs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axismaps.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/a-new-kind-of-election-map\/\">Axis Maps<\/a>, and above is one that we&#8217;ve come up with so far.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a standard red-blue map indicating the winner of each county in the lower 48 states, where the transparency indicates the population of a county.  The many counties with low population fade into the background, diminishing their visual prominence.  This is meant to accomplish something similar to a cartogram, where sizes are distorted to show the actual distribution of votes.  It&#8217;s step one of trying out alternatives to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/2008\/\">cartograms<\/a> that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/i-hate-your-favorite-election-map\/\">complained about<\/a> earlier this week.  I won&#8217;t claim yet that it&#8217;s better&#8230; just <em>different<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re working on putting together a few election maps and and graphs at Axis Maps, and above is one that we&#8217;ve come up with so far. It&#8217;s a standard red-blue map indicating the winner of each county in the lower 48 states, where the transparency indicates the population of a county. The many counties with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[29,15,28],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-my-maps","tag-axis-maps","tag-election-maps","tag-map-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}