ulken.com » Gay marriage http://ulken.com Eric Ulken's adventures in online journalism Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:19:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 New at latimes.com: Slice and filter California election results http://ulken.com/2008/11/05/slice-and-filter-calif-election-results/ http://ulken.com/2008/11/05/slice-and-filter-calif-election-results/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:48:38 +0000 Eric Ulken http://ulken.com/?p=256 In my last few weeks at the Times, I’ve largely been preoccupied with imagining and building our election data widgets for use on election night.  It might seem silly to spend so much time preparing for an event that’s over so quickly.  But I think we’ve found at least one app that’ll last long enough to make it worth the effort.  It’s our California county-by-county map, and I think it’s way cool.

Sure, you can see bubbles by county for the state propositions and the presidential race, but you can also slice the vote by demographic categories (e.g.., counties that went for Bush in 2004) to see if you can spot trends. Happy filtering.

(Credit where it’s due: The filters are inspired by NYT’s excellent county-by-county maps during the primary season.)

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