A while ago I stumbled over some deformable maps that everybody seemed to find pretty interesting. Here are a few more showing data from the 2004 US presidential election. Firstly coloured by state:
Oh my! That is far too much red. Things change a little bit if we show the individual counties in each state:
And it gets really interesting if we scale each county in proportion to its population:
Finally, we can make the map a much more pleasing blue colour by shading each county by the proportion of the vote that went each way:
I'd love it if somebody could find the page where these maps came from. I lost the URL ages ago and luckily had these ones sat on my harddrive.
Oh my! That is far too much red. Things change a little bit if we show the individual counties in each state:
And it gets really interesting if we scale each county in proportion to its population:
Finally, we can make the map a much more pleasing blue colour by shading each county by the proportion of the vote that went each way:
I'd love it if somebody could find the page where these maps came from. I lost the URL ages ago and luckily had these ones sat on my harddrive.
