New Viz: Rating the Presidents
Ken FlerlageSeptember 29, 2021
As you may be able to tell by the topics of many of my visualizations, I’m a bit of a political junkie. Of particular interest is presidenti...
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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
14 Ways to Visualize the Presidential Election
Ken FlerlageOctober 28, 2020
On a recent episode of Chart Chat , Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, Amanda Makulec, and Andy Cotgreave engaged in an amazing discussion about...
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New Viz: The Widening Gap – Political Polarity in the US
Ken FlerlageSeptember 16, 2020
I was born in 1976 and, in those 44 years, I cannot recall ever seeing the United States so politically polarized. It’s disconcerting an...
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Creating a Parliament Chart in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJanuary 27, 2020
Parliament charts are a common method for showing the results of an election or the current makeup of a parliamentary government. These ...
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3 Ways to Create Predominance Maps in Tableau
Ken FlerlageApril 06, 2019
The US election ended a few months back, which means we’re seeing lots of predominance maps showing the election results. Whether you know...
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How Representative is the 116th Congress?
Ken FlerlageJanuary 20, 2019
A couple years ago, I looked at the 114 th Congress of the United States and compared its diversity to that of the nation as a whole. A...
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Creating 538’s Election Prediction Chart in Tableau 2018.3
Ken FlerlageJanuary 06, 2019
Nate Silver’s 538 site always has great visuals and the November US mid-term elections was no exception. As I was catching up on their ...
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The Art of Gerrymandering #IronViz
Ken FlerlageMarch 20, 2017
I’m still very much a Tableau newbie. My first ever visualization was a simple election choropleth last June. So this is the first Table...
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Global Participation in the Women’s March
Ken FlerlageJanuary 22, 2017
The Women’s March on Washington was held yesterday and the participation was incredible. Not only did hundreds of thousands of women (an...
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Each State’s Ability to Pick the President
Ken FlerlageDecember 19, 2016
During the past few election cycles, we’ve regularly heard the phrase, “As Ohio Goes, So Goes the Nation,” meaning that Ohio typicall...
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Nate Silver Challenge: What Went Wrong?
Ken FlerlageNovember 14, 2016
As many of you have pointed out, my election projections were, well…wrong. So what happened? Before we start unraveling all this, let’...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: Final Projections
Ken FlerlageNovember 07, 2016
Nate Silver Election Challenge: Final Projections Well, the time has come. After a long, arduous, ex...
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Yes, Trump Can Win (Plus Some Strange Scenarios)
Ken FlerlageNovember 03, 2016
A week ago, Democrats seemed to be starting their victory lap amidst talk of a landslide electoral victory. But, all that was clearly pr...
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Where Do the Candidates Visit Most Often?
Ken FlerlageNovember 01, 2016
As you may have noticed from many of my posts, I’m a bit of a politics junkie. I read everything I can about the election—good, bad, and...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: October Update
Ken FlerlageOctober 31, 2016
A lot has happened since my September update—the second and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate; the New Yor...
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Word Analysis of the Final Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageOctober 20, 2016
Well the third and final debate is in the books. And this exhausting election will be over in less than ...
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Word Analysis of the 2nd Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageOctober 10, 2016
After the first Presidential debate, I published a post which briefly analyzed the words used by each candidate. Now that the second ...
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Nate Silver Election Challenge: September Update
Ken FlerlageOctober 09, 2016
When I first called out Nate Silver , I noted that I don’t think it’s really that hard to predict the winner of each state in a Presid...
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Word Analysis of the Presidential Debate
Ken FlerlageSeptember 28, 2016
After the Republican and Democratic conventions wrapped, I wrote a brief analysis of each nominees’ convention speeches and I think this...
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Inflation-Adjusted Federal Budget
Ken FlerlageSeptember 21, 2016
For as long as I can remember, people have been complaining about overspending in Washington. This year, particularly since it’s an elect...
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