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State Electoral Votes over Time
Posted by Robert Morton on October 30, 2008
Robert Kosara has an interesting post up on EagerEyes where he uses Tableau to visually highlight trends in states' presidential party preference. Two readers suggested that the states should not be arranged alphabetically, instead clustering them in some fashion that groups like-minded states.
Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls
Posted by Michael Drumheller on October 22, 2008
We recently had the opportunity to post a guest entry at one of our favorite data visualization blogs – Flowing Data. In it, we examined to what extent election polls and election betting data are correlated and whether one leads or lags the other. Check out the full post at Flowing Data. Below we have provided our packaged workbook and data for your own exploration.
Showing Electoral College Impact With Overlapped Bars
Posted by Jock Mackinlay on October 9, 2008
Robert Kosara has created an overlapped bar chart that describes the history of US Presidential votes, which is discussed in his EagerEyes blog. This view is interesting because the bars for the percent Electoral vote is on the top when it is less than the percent of Popular vote and on the bottom when it is greater. Although he used Excel computations to generate the view, it is easy to generate in Tableau by defining an extra column. Playing with the resulting workbook, I found that it is effective to sort the bars by the percent of the popular vote because you can clearly see all the presidents that were helped by the Electoral college to get above 50%.
Text Analysis on Election '08 stump speeches
Posted by Raif Majeed on February 4, 2008
If you've seen the news, you'll know that there are lots of words flying around nowadays -- political speeches, debates, ads, etc. If you're trying to understand the words and decide how to vote, it can be overwhelming. However, if you look at the words as data, you can suddenly get interesting new insights.
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