{"id":1167,"date":"2016-10-24T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:16:06","slug":"post-world-war-ii-election-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/24\/post-world-war-ii-election-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-World War II Election Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my blog post this week, I decided to examine the dataset that contained the presidential election voting results by party. This dataset includes the voting results from every post-World War II presidential election. The data is categorized by votes per party and votes per candidate. I thought that using this method for data visualization would show the voting trends by party lines over the course of seventy years better than any other form. This representation of the data allows the viewer to see how events in American history and reactions to certain presidencies changes overall voting.<\/p>\n

From the data presented in this dataset, many correlations can be found between historical events and voting results and many trends can be viewed about the change in voting over time. There are many ways this dataset can be visualized due to the vast array of information presented. One can organize the data by republican candidate, democratic candidate, incumbent candidate, democratic total vote, republican total vote, or total vote. By having such a large list of categories to choose from, one can find many correlations of voting trends and habits based on different criteria.<\/p>\n

One of the most evident trends that can be seen over time is the increase in voting as a nation. Many assumptions can be made about this increase in overall voting. One could postulate that this trend is solely due to the increasing population of America and the Baby Boom Era of the 1940s-1960s. If more data was presented along with this dataset such as economic details of the country or approval ratings of presidents, assumptions along the lines of an increasing national debt causing the general public to be more involved or a disdain for a certain president and want to change party could be posited.<\/p>\n

\"screen-shot-2016-10-23-at-5-09-16-pm\"Other interesting trends can be seen when showing the total party vote for a certain candidate in a certain election. These trends can be used to show what attributes in a candidate are more effective when running for president and which ones are more deleterious. It can also show the margins by which a presidency was won and to what extent overall voter turnout had an effect on the outcome of the election.
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\n\"screen-shot-2016-10-24-at-10-58-03-am\"Overall, the vast amount of data that is presented by this data set allows the viewer to manipulate it in many different ways and achieve various outputs. This data allows the viewer to make many connections and even more assumptions about presidential voting in America. However, this dataset could be improved by the addition of a qualitative element to show historical events or controversial bills that presidents passed along with more quantitative elements such as approval ratings and economic descriptions of the eras. These would allow more concrete postulations to be made about the data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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