Posted on November 7, 2012
Election 2012 maps: Showing data
This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a… Read More
Posted on November 7, 2008
A visual, tagged database of Election Night screen grabs
One of our doctoral students spent Election Night grabbing screen captures from 98 different news Web sites, from about 11:30 P.M. EST until almost 6 a.m. Wednesday morning. The fruits of his labor are viewable at Iterasi, a… Read More
Posted on November 6, 2008
Online graphics from the U.S. election
There’s a fine collection of interesting election graphics from news organizations and some magazines, at DesignO’Blog (thanks for the tip, Mark Barilla). The one from GOOD magazine, while not interactive (print version only), is worth a look —… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2008
Obama’s speech remade for the Web
The New York Times has put up a wonderful package of Obama’s Election Night speech, with a dynamic transcript and a useful navigation bar. Listen and watch again.
Posted on November 5, 2008
The map of population size, U.S. Election
Although the popular vote was not a landslide, the map redrawn with the size of each state scaled to represent its population makes it clear that we are a majority blue nation. An explanation of the method used… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2008
How the Web saw Election Night
I grabbed 16 screenshots throughout the evening, about half showing the vote maps at various news organizations and the other half showing the updated home pages after 11 p.m. Eastern Time. Here’s the slideshow (at Flickr). I think… Read More
Posted on November 4, 2008
Awesome live voting via Twitter
This is the best use of Twitter so far. My gosh, I can hardly stop watching this. This is much better than news media reports (on voters voting, I mean). I have the shivers! You do NOT need… Read More