election

Ever since the huge forecasting upset in 2016, I’ve tended to stay away…

The New York Times published an election map. A lot of people did not like the map, arguing that it was an inaccurate representation. Those who did like the map argued that one must consider intent before throwing a map to the flames.

What happens when intended use and actual use do not match up?

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts…

The Upshot returns to 2016 election results mapped at the precinct level. Because…

Democrat Doug Jones won in the senate race against Republican Roy More last…

Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…

Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…

During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…

This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…

Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused on deaths,…

Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…

Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…

For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…

Adam Pearce for the New York Times charted ad spending for Clinton and…

The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…

I think many of us can relate to this during the odd election…

I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context…

In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…

After the first presidential debate, #TrumpWon was a trending topic on Twitter, which…