Yesterday nosotros looked at roughly of the visualization methods used past times the New York Times to map the election results inwards the Virginia governor's race. These methods included using scaled markers, directional arrows as well as color intensity. The Washington Post has equally good been experimenting amongst novel visualization techniques for mapping the Virginia election results.
In How Virginia went from blueish to carmine as well as dorsum again the Post uses scaled pyramids to exhibit the position out of votes sort inwards each electoral precinct as well as the margin of victory. These pyramids are colored to exhibit the winner inwards each district. The meridian of the pyramid represents the size of the winning margin, spell the width of the pyramid represents the size of the vote.
These scaled pyramid markers operate quite good visually. They accurately portray how the Republicans continued to practise good inwards the less densely populated rural areas spell the Democrats dominated the race past times winning inwards urban areas where to a greater extent than voters live.
If you lot desire to know to a greater extent than close how the New York Times created their unlike views of the Virginia election results thus you lot should read Mapbox's study New York Times live-mapping Virginia election. This spider web log postal service explains how the Times used Mapbox GL JS expressions inwards social club to practise their unlike views of the election data.
