Sweden's national populace tv set broadcaster Sveriges Television has created an interesting information visualization of the votes cast inwards this week's Swedish election. It has mapped the overall winner inwards each election constituency to demo where each political political party won the almost votes.
In the Swedish Vote each constituency is shown every bit a colored dot. The color of each point represents the political political party that received the almost votes inwards that constituency. Using a point to correspond each constituency agency that SVT speedily reckon a familiar work when creating election maps. Sweden’s population is concentrated inwards the biggest cities. It is hence harder to reckon all of the dots representing the constituencies inwards the tightly packed urban areas than it is to reckon the to a greater extent than spread apart dots representing the to a greater extent than rural constituencies.
SVT overcome this work past times changing the shape of the map. In fellowship to brand the election results to a greater extent than legible the broadcaster reshapes the province then that all the dots are easier to see. In other words information literacy has been improved at the expense of geographical accuracy. The resulting unfamiliar geography is partly overcome past times animating betwixt the to a greater extent than geographically right map as well as the novel cartogram.
This animating of the dots representing each constituency continues every bit you lot progress through the Swedish Vote. Later the dots are rearranged into a grid to demo to a greater extent than clearly the release of constituencies won past times each party. This grid as well as the cartogram are too repeated for the results of the 2014 election then that readers tin compare the effect of this year's election amongst Sweden's previous election.
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