A data microscope for exploring spanish 2011 election results.
A project with RTVE
THE PROJECT
We were contacted by the Spanish national television station RTVE to create a visualization tool allowing users to understand the 2011 Spanish electoral results in the context of historical electoral results and a range of demographic indicators.
This is one of the largest visualisations of open-data and electoral results ever done in Spain, and we are proud to have enabled it.
What we made:
- Interaction and visual design
- Front-end development
- Data harvesting and processing
- CartoDB for GIS
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THE CHALLENGE
The main requirement was to build a political-neutral tool with an User Interface suitable for the general public, to transparently understand and discover linkages within current and past electoral events.
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THE SOLUTION
It has been one of the most technically complex projects we have approached. We worked simultaneously in 3 different levels:
- CartoDB for generating tiled cartography.
- Custom parsers and Google Refine for data harvesting and processing.
- JS/HTML/CSS for creating a rich and engaging experience.
- Magic dust for making it work :-)
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THE RESULTS
Together with RTVE, this is one of the largest visualisations of open-data and electoral results we have ever done. In our visualisation you can investigate electoral results since 1987 and discover how the electoral and socio-economic landscape of Spain has evolved.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Rich map tiles
The electoral results are color coded in a map, using custom tiles generated with CartoCSS.
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Data intensive
The application allows the user to visualize 15 datasets at 3 different administrative levels along more than 20 years.
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Visual exploration
An interactive graph enables the data exploration in a visual and intuitive way.