The right placement
I wrote a short script to display the results of the 2004 US presidential elections as a bar chart, shown below (click for full-size image, which will make more sense):
The width of each state indicates the number of electoral college votes it has; the height the extent to which votes for one party exceeded votes for the other. The script is in Python and uses Cairo for drawing. The most challenging part of writing the script was…
Continue Reading 8 comments January 11th, 2007 Paul Crowley