The midterm elections

The midterm elections are approaching and many news sources are publishing visualizations of the election polling and will soon publish visualizations of the results. It’s lucky to be studying visualizations in a time like this.

This extra credit opportunity asks you to pick an election-related visualization that interests you in some way. You can pick a visualization that you think is good and that embodies what we are learning about effective visualizations. You can also pick a visualization that you think is not good and that violates what we have studied in some way. Most likely there will be both things that you like and dislike. What I’m looking for is a concise discussion of what the visualization is showing (data), how it shows the data (visual variables/encoding), and what is good and bad about it. Put a screenshot (snapshot if it’s from a paper media) in a word doc or pdf with this short discussion as well as a link if it’s an online visualization.

This extra credit opportunity will be worth 5 points but I will consider a few extra (1-2 points) for examples that show another visualization from a different "filter bubble". That is, if you can show another visualization from a different perspective (conservative vs liberal, local vs out-of-state, or international vs domestic).