Fully-navigable, data-rich representation of 2004 presidential election data. 3,111 US counties represented.

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Overview

This system recreates key aspects of the graphic that ESRI made famous shortly after the 2004 United States Presidential election. It illustrates the number of votes cast for each candidate by projecting each state's counties as volumes where the height of each county represents the margin of votes for the winning candidate.

The 2004 Presidential election was quite close, but a two-dimensional color-coded projection might suggest that President Bush was a run-away winner. By giving each county a volume relative to the county's victory margin, it becomes clearer that Senator Kerry's votes were concentrated in heavily populated urban areas.

This Eye-Sys system is fully navigable, but it also adds an interactive component in that details of each county can be retrieved by simply moving the mouse over the map. These details are displayed in the flat overlay shown in the bottom left corner in the gallery images. The overlay displays the county name, the raw number of votes cast for each candidate, and two pie charts that break down some demographic data for county.

The data featured in this visualization was used with permission from Anthony Robinson.

Notes

• The visualization shows the 3,111 counties in the continental United States, rendered using 384,091 triangles for their volumes and 77,772 line segments for their outlines. The rest of the world (in white) is rendered using just under 300,000 triangles.
  
  
• The arbitrary data shown in the data overlay can easily be changed by adjusting a few connections in the Eye-Sys sandbox. The database contains numerous census data fields for each county.