According to our course calendar, our first project is due on October 20. I guess we should set up some parameters around that.
The material
Obviously, we’ve spent a fair amount of time talking about elections and gerrymandering and that’s where your project will be centered. Specifically, we’ll decide on a state for each of you and you’re going to generate a map of its congressional districts together with a bar chart or pie chart indicating the how competitive each district is. Effectively, you’ll reproduce the state level information that you see here:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/
- You’ll generate the visualizations with Datawrapper.
- You’ll probably analyze either the most current 2022 maps but I’m open to the 2020 maps as well.
- Here are the assigned states:
- Ariel: New Jersey
- Ava: Wisconsin
- Cadence: Massachusetts
- Carson: Arizona
- Ethan: Pennsylvania
- Hugo: Washington
- Izzy: Colorado
- Jackson: Georgia
- Jordan: Indiana
- Kenton: Ohio
- Lillie: Oregon
- Lola: Illinois
- Luca: Tennesee
- Mahaley: Maryland
- Owen: Minnesota
- Rebecca: Alabama
- Seth: Michigan
- Shelby: Virginia
- Starling: South Carolina
- Trifun: North Carolina
The medium
You’ll need to publish your results in WordPress a blog post. I guess that means you’ll need a WordPress site! You can sign up for one here:
Please get an account over the weekend; we might play with it on Monday.
Today
For today, jump onto Datawrapper and try to generate a bar chart and a pie chart for data like the following:
| Name | value |
| Mark | 59 |
| Adrienne | 46 |
| Adelaide | 14 |
| Audrey | 13 |
| Amelia | 12 |
My favorite pie chart
