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See This Red Area? This Is Sand
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17777580
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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Frankly both of these maps are deceptive (though the top one is albeit more so). The dot gets colored the primary color in that region, and visually makes the Democrats seem way more dominant when it's much more bipartisan. A gradient would make this map better
Yep, each area needs two dots, one red, one blue, sized proportional to their votes.
Florida will get quite a bit bluer, but California and the northeast will get much redder.
the jpeg makes a lot of the smaller dots look grey too
Yes, all it takes is small critical details to influence the desired reception of a presentation of data. A goal of a good map or any statistical based representation is not to operate as means of propaganda, but rather by letting the viewer decide the correlation based on making the actual data easy to understand without deceiving in an appealing way.