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Cartographic Representation: Examples from the 2008 Election

Cartographic Representation: Examples from the 2008 Election. Anthony C. Robinson GeoVISTA Center / John A. Dutton e-Education Institute The Pennsylvania State University. How many ways can you map an election?. Electoral Vote Winners, 2008.

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Cartographic Representation: Examples from the 2008 Election

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  1. Cartographic Representation: Examples from the 2008 Election Anthony C. Robinson GeoVISTA Center / John A. Dutton e-Education Institute The Pennsylvania State University

  2. How many ways can you map an election?

  3. Electoral Vote Winners, 2008

  4. Population Cartogram – Areas Resized by Population

  5. Electoral Vote Cartogram – Areas Resized By # of Electoral Votes

  6. County Choropleth – Winners (2 Classes) Choropleth = Color-Filled Areas

  7. County Cartogram – Winners, Areas Resized by Population

  8. County Choropleth – Percentages of Votes UnclassedChoropleth = Uses Continuous Color Ramp, Not Set # of Color Classes

  9. County Cartogram – Percentages of Votes

  10. Do maps always tell the truth?

  11. Red / Blue Dichotomy In Use, 2000

  12. Red / Blue (?) Dichotomy In Use, 2000

  13. Red / Blue, Extending Beyond Our Borders

  14. Shifts in Voting, Original – NY Times

  15. Shifts in Voting, Manipulated Color Saturation – Huffington Post Saturation = Intensity of Color

  16. “The Past Isn’t Dead”, Allen Gathman, SE Missouri State University

  17. 10 States of American Politics, beyondredandblue.org

  18. The View from 10.2006, surveyusa.com

  19. Polling Place Equipment, Verified Voting Foundation Color Connotation = The Cultural Meaning of a Color

  20. Reported Voting Problems, ourvotelive.org Choropleth Maps = Not Useful to Map Totals, Should Map Rates Instead

  21. Obamaland and McCainland, kottke.org

  22. What other ways can we look at this?

  23. 3D Perspective, Washington Post

  24. Voters per Electoral Vote, NY Times

  25. Reaction to “The Fish”, Seneca Doane from DailyKos

  26. Voting and Population Density, from AxisMaps

  27. Words in Campaign Speeches, from AxisMaps

  28. Google Earth Mashup, Kenton Ngo of DailyKos Map Mashup = Custom Map Created by Mixing Data From Multiple Web Sources

  29. Election maps = entertaining?

  30. Informal Real-Time Mapping, from a BeenUp2 Post

  31. Poking Fun, The Crikey Electoral College-O-Meter

  32. The Election Represented by The Onion

  33. What does the rest of the world think?

  34. Le Monde, France

  35. Global Electoral College, The Economist

  36. What these maps have in common…

  37. Every design has its purpose (often more than one) • Many are designed by people who have no cartographic training • The point of view of election maps is often highly opinionated • All of them are worth thinking about!

  38. Some closing thoughts…

  39. There is no “best” way to design a map • Every map simplifies reality to communicate an idea • Most people see maps as facts • Take it upon yourself to make responsible maps

  40. Thank you…

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