Many ways to show a simple chart

juni 24th, 2008

Saw this on the PTS blog

Which is a very nice way to show differences in rural vs. suburb vs. city voting patterns for different states. However - When there is only two mutually exclusive data series,  I like to throw away some infomation. Therefore I have simply subtracted clinton votes from obama votes and plottet the results. I think that for larger datasets (i.e. all 50 states) - this would be a simpler design

obama_clinton_pts_junk_chart_24_06_081.png

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2 comments on “Many ways to show a simple chart”

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    […] results, though it is difficult to compare vote totals in close races. Some readers (for example, Andreas) of my earlier post in this blog and of Kaiser’s original Close Races post would have […]

    Close Races 2 » PTS Blog at juni 24th, 2008 around 20:29
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    Andreas - To get positive labels along the entire horizontal axis, use a custom number format like this:
    0;0;0;@

    I should have made my chart with lighter lines connecting the markers.

    Jon Peltier at juni 24th, 2008 around 20:32
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