Weekly Viz 2021-07-05
2020 Electoral Map If Only ____ Voted
About Makeover Monday
MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”
Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.
The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.
Makeover Monday 20210705
This week’s dataset is about the 2020 US Election – ‘if only __ voted’. It’s a very interesting perspective to understand how opinion divergent in the US among different demographics. You can find the original viz in this Reddit post. And as a disclaimer – here I don’t want to talk about political views, but simply visualizing the data.
My Visualization
I used simple stacked bar charts and grouped demographics into several categories for easier comparison. You can also hover on the bar charts to see the electoral map.
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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
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Insights
- We see very divergent opinions among different age groups, eudcation levels, income level, and location; Even men and women give us totally different election results;
- And as you would imagine, different states vary a lot on this topic – for example, Biden almost always got States like CA and MA no matter what demographics you are looking at, except Prostetants and Voted on Election Day.
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