When I was in Perth, I visited Hui’s house one day. Lovely, Hui’s daughter (who is about 14) asked Hui how he knew me. Hui told that we both share a passion for Excel and thats how we got to know each other. Then she asked, What is Excel?
At this point, we both tried to explain what Excel is to her in a few ways with no success. Later Hui came up with a brilliant explanation.
He said, Excel has lots of small calculators all interconnected, so that you can do any sort of calculation.
So here is a challenge for you. How would you explain Excel to a small kid (or someone who never heard about it).
Share your answers using comments.
Go ahead and be funny, outrageous, creative or elaborate. Say something.
21 Responses to “Red vs. Blue – 35 Cool Visualizations on 2008 US Presidential Election”
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Impressive list, though a few of these clearly qualify as junk (the second one with the hairy circle segments, for example).
Also, that McCain vs. Obama tax plan comparison is wildly distorted, for a debunking and redesign see here: http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/taxplans/
Holy information/data overload. There are some great visualizations here, but also that are not so good. This list may have been better in small chunks.
[...] Haired Dilbert has some pretty cool visualizations for the ‘08 Election featured on his blog. I really liked this [...]
Cool list!
I know another widget that might have your interest.
It shows the progression of polls and uses data from electoral-vote.com.
I think you might like it:-)
http://www.youcalc.com/apps/1221747067033
... and its easy to put on your blog and fits in your sidebar!
Make a difference, keep on voting!
@Robert .. Agree, few of the charts are not really great. thanks for link, I have updated the post with the link.
@Tony ... That was the point. I wanted to compile a huge list with all the visualizations worth a look.
@Michael .. Welcome to PHD blog 🙂 thanks for sharing that link.
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First let me say that I love this blog. I have been scouring the Internet and more than likely overlooking the obvious. Can someone lead me to the OFFICIAL source of elections results? I am looking for voter data by county or even town if possible.
The reason I ask is because on Boston.com, they listed the results by town, and have to assume that there is an offical source.
Anyway, any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated!
@Brock: Thank you so much. I guess fec.gov should put up the results as soon as all counties report the results officially. I dont know but I guess it should take a few days before the data is compiled and released to public.
Alternatively did you see what nytimes.com has to offer? They have a county level breakup of results and majority figures in visualization form.
Thanks for your help!
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@Brock: You can get the data from USAToday site : http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/president.htm
just scroll down and select the state name to see its county results in tabular form.
Thanks again. I also stumbled upon this. http://general-election-2008-data.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/json/votes/2008/. It appears as if there was a Google project with the data. I do not know a web programming language, but I am sure there is an easy way to catch the data and put it into a database.
[...] to give a deeper insight into the elections. A top 35 of those visualizations are listed in the Chandoo.org website. B. Shneiderman’s very interesting network analysis of the Senatorial voting patterns is [...]
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