Make a box for each state, sized proportionate to its electoral votes, sort them by political leaning, and glue them end to end. A point in the middle shows the electoral vote cutoff, and the states nearest it are the ones that'd be easiest to sway one way or the other. The chart is a giant line that's like six screens across, so make it zig-zag to fit on a screen. Call it a snake chart and pretend that's clever so people don't realize how lazy that zig-zag part was.
Yes, it's the amount of electoral vote per state, and Maine and Nebraska assign some votes by district if you're wondering what that Ne2 Me1 stuff's about, this info should be included really. Ideally graphs shouldn't have to contain too much extra text but even worse is not having the info at all, especially in the Napoleon one.
Another alternative is a map like this https://www.ocregister.com/2016/11/07/focus-why-the-electoral-college-matters-to-every-state/ where you see each vote but they're all over the place. I think I've seen one that combines the simple design and being able to see the exact order of state's leanings like the snake, while clearly showing the amount of votes with squares like the map, couldn't find it though.
That Napoleon one was really weird and more overwhelming. I think it shows the path they took towards Moscow and then the way back, while also showing how many troops are left. Yeah, i'd be starting with the left-most red part and follow the black line back right-left, since that would be the chronological order. it only seems to show the temperature on their way back, wonder why. Guess zigzag is just an approximation?
I think it's that I read a lot of weirdly presented data on r/dataisbeautiful and Im familiar with the electoral college even though I'm not american either.
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Make a box for each state, sized proportionate to its electoral votes, sort them by political leaning, and glue them end to end. A point in the middle shows the electoral vote cutoff, and the states nearest it are the ones that'd be easiest to sway one way or the other. The chart is a giant line that's like six screens across, so make it zig-zag to fit on a screen. Call it a snake chart and pretend that's clever so people don't realize how lazy that zig-zag part was.
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That might be easier to understand for those already familiar with bar charts but it's uncreative.
Are you familiar with this chart of Napoleons invasion of Russia
It's not super intuitive but once you grok it, it is a brilliant representation of the campaign in a way that bar charts cannot approach.
I think the snake part is a reference to Join or Die
I thought it was pretty intuitive, but I can see why it wouldn't be to some, pretty overwhelming
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Yes, it's the amount of electoral vote per state, and Maine and Nebraska assign some votes by district if you're wondering what that Ne2 Me1 stuff's about, this info should be included really. Ideally graphs shouldn't have to contain too much extra text but even worse is not having the info at all, especially in the Napoleon one.
Another alternative is a map like this https://www.ocregister.com/2016/11/07/focus-why-the-electoral-college-matters-to-every-state/ where you see each vote but they're all over the place. I think I've seen one that combines the simple design and being able to see the exact order of state's leanings like the snake, while clearly showing the amount of votes with squares like the map, couldn't find it though.
That Napoleon one was really weird and more overwhelming. I think it shows the path they took towards Moscow and then the way back, while also showing how many troops are left. Yeah, i'd be starting with the left-most red part and follow the black line back right-left, since that would be the chronological order. it only seems to show the temperature on their way back, wonder why. Guess zigzag is just an approximation?
I think it's that I read a lot of weirdly presented data on r/dataisbeautiful and Im familiar with the electoral college even though I'm not american either.