Sketches from the Swinging Swing States

Now that the election is over and there’s a bit more time, I can post some sketches I have been sitting on for a while. (Early disclaimer: sitting on them was as close to this content as I got – these are courtesy of Mike Bostock, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox. I’m just doing the manual cut-and-paste labor.)

This first sketch, from Amanda, was made with R, and it had been in her ideas folder for a while (more than six months, I think).

Some brief styling of that idea in D3:

Then, before eventually coming back to this concept, some experimentation with other forms:

Before honing in on their final idea:

And then just refining the view:

And here’s the final piece:

1. tomfethers reblogged this from chartsnthings and added:

   love these posts,...design process and doesn’t leave me feeling pathetic and inferior...

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   The understated but extremely important step of letting ideas marinate and evolve.

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   make visualizations like this. Or even be 10% as good. /dream job

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