{"id":1241,"date":"2016-10-24T23:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2016-10-24T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:25:58","slug":"week-4-post-wwii-elections-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/24\/week-4-post-wwii-elections-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Post-WWII Elections Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s blog post, I decided to examine the voting data for presidential elections post-WII.<\/p>\n<p>My first visualization lays out the number of votes for the Democratic and Republican candidate, as well as the total number of votes.<\/p>\n<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1477376566921'><a href='#'><img alt='Number of votes per year ' src='https:&#047;&#047;public.tableau.com&#047;static&#047;images&#047;Pr&#047;PresVotes&#047;Sheet1&#047;1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a>  <\/div>\n<p>This allows us to see the trend in number of voters overall and for each party, as well as see which years the Democrats and Republicans won respectively.<\/p>\n<p>My second visualization focuses on the vote difference between the winning and losing party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"viz1477376315089\" class=\"tableauPlaceholder\"><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/Vo\/VoteDiff\/Sheet4\/1_rss.png\" alt=\"Vote difference by winning party \" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bars are highlighted with the party color of the winning party that year. Darker colors indicate that the party was the incumbent party. This visualization allows us to see that Republicans tend to win by higher margins than Democrats. Republicans also tend to win more when they are the incumbent party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s blog post, I decided to examine the voting data for presidential elections post-WII. My first visualization lays out the number of votes for the Democratic and Republican candidate, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/24\/week-4-post-wwii-elections-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 4: Post-WWII Elections Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}