![]() To make this “dot-density” map, he used ArcGIS software from Esri, the company where he works, to illustrate information from two government data sets, one on election results and the other, the USGS’s “brilliant” national land-cover database. ![]() Reminds me of the piece I wrote about obsession with his county choropleth: /Bww032uAky- Thomas de Beus March 6, 2018 Original here: I just dropped a bad 'photoshop'. Field says Trump’s map isn’t “incorrect … there isn’t just one way of mapping the data” Field also wanted to make “a map that pushes the data into areas where people actually live.”įull credits to making the dot density (1dot = 1vote) map (on the right). In this new version, cartographer Kenneth Field wanted to include all votes - not just those of the victor in each area. That’s 65,844,954 blue dots for Hillary Clinton and 62,979,636 red dots for Donald Trump. Now, some 16 months later, perhaps the fairest and most nonpartisan version of the electoral map yet has gone a little bit viral: one that includes a dot representing every single vote cast. (Donald Trump put a version of this map on a wall in the White House.) look like a sea of red - never mind that a lot of those rural counties have fewer inhabitants than a single block in Manhattan. shaped by vote population distribution, because, as you recall, Hillary Clinton got 3 million more votes.Ī Republican would then put up a very different map showing all the counties that voted for Trump and making the U.S. ![]() ![]() You know the ones: A Democrat would post an almost psychedelically stretched-out cartogram of the continental U.S. Photo: Courtesy of Kenneth Field and Īlong with the New York Times’ needle of death, perhaps no infographics are as associated with the 2016 election as voting maps. ![]()
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