Awesome Interactive Graphic

[bryant]

The New York Times did this great interactive chart showing the demographic margins for Obama and Clinton. Check it out.

Comments

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

The NY Times has been doing well with these little graphics they've been putting in their web editions lately

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Yes - the byline shows it's the same people who did the great movie box office diagram.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

That is neato.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

It is cute, yet I am disappoint I can't select more than one box simultaneously to see how black men aged 45-59 making under $15k with postgraduate degrees tilted.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tried that as well and was sorely disappointed.

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought that was particularly good! I tried hard to find something wrong with it, but couldn't find anything too bad. A friend of mine who researches infoviz brought up that it would be nice to directly compare different groups, but other than that it's pretty great.

[bryant]

They're doing pretty keen work lately. As Rob noted above, it's the same people who did that box office chart.

There's a weird sort of soft direct comparison there in that the boxes visually move when you go from one group to another; I think that's actually an important part of the design, since it gives you a sense of how the votes are moving. Simply flipping between two views wouldn't be quite as powerful.

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Yep, I actually pointed out the movement to my friend :)

[kodi]

It's very interesting to track Arkansas through the different selections - especially as you go up the 'education' track. What the hell is wrong with post-graduate education in Arkansas?