Features / elections

Project Rails JSON results reporting AP data APIs SQL elections The New York Times’ Election Results Loader

• By Jacob Harris
• Brian Hamman, Jacob Harris, Jacqui Maher, Michael Strickland, Derek Willis
• The New York Times

Jacob Harris breaks down the data, the code choices, and the rationales behind the NYT’s results loader for the US 2012 elections.

Project Google Spreadsheets TileMill mapping elections MapBox Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map

• By Tasneem Raja
• Gavin Aronsen, Ben Breedlove, Mark Follman, Jaeah Lee, Tasneem Raja
• Mother Jones

How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.

Project dataviz D3 trees elections The NYT’s Visual Election Outcome Explorer

• By Mike Bostock
• Mike Bostock, Shan Carter
• The New York Times

Mike Bostock explains how he and Shan Carter created the 512 Paths interactive feature, from early sketches to complete implementation.

Project mapping JSON elections WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map

• By John Keefe
• Kim Bui, Adam DePrince, Schuyler Duveen, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Glenn Mohre
• KPCC, OpenNews, WNYC

How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a