I love maps. I especially love maps that tell me a story with data.

I have some county-level election results data (from West Virginia) that I have wanted to map for some time, so I started looking for a tool. Looking around for a web-based mapping solution, I opted to try out D3.js. I’ve read that the learning curve can be steep, but I can only imagine it’s worth the effort having seen what it can do.

Here’s a peak at the plotting I’ve been doing. The colors correspond to vote-percentage values recieved by a candidate for the position. I’ll dress this up some more (hover states, graphs, scales, fancy zooming, etc.) and describe the code very soon; I’m just glad to have it up for now!

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