Sweden's national world telly broadcaster Sveriges Television has created an interesting information visualization of the votes cast inwards this week's Swedish election. It has mapped the overall winner inwards each election constituency to present where each political political party won the nearly votes.
In the Swedish Vote each constituency is shown equally a colored dot. The color of each point represents the political political party that received the nearly votes inwards that constituency. Using a point to stand upwards for each constituency agency that SVT speedily run across a familiar occupation when creating election maps. Sweden’s population is concentrated inwards the biggest cities. It is thus harder to catch all of the dots representing the constituencies inwards the tightly packed urban areas than it is to catch the to a greater extent than spread apart dots representing the to a greater extent than rural constituencies.
SVT overcome this occupation yesteryear changing the shape of the map. In corporation to brand the election results to a greater extent than legible the broadcaster reshapes the province as well as so that all the dots are easier to see. In other words information literacy has been improved at the expense of geographical accuracy. The resulting unfamiliar geography is partly overcome yesteryear animating betwixt the to a greater extent than geographically right map as well as the novel cartogram.
This animating of the dots representing each constituency continues equally you lot progress through the Swedish Vote. Later the dots are rearranged into a grid to present to a greater extent than clearly the publish of constituencies won yesteryear each party. This grid as well as the cartogram are equally good repeated for the results of the 2014 election as well as so that readers tin compare the outcome of this year's election alongside Sweden's previous election.
