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It would be interesting to see a hex map that represented each state with a number of tiles in proportion to its electoral college votes (or in some other way s
by lambertsimnel 6y ago
It would be interesting to see a hex map that represented each state with a number of tiles in proportion to its electoral college votes (or in some other way showed their relative weight).
There's one for last year's UK election here (but it doesn't reflect margins of victory):
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec/12/uk-general-election-2019-full-results-live-labour-conservatives-tories https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec...
- bobthepanda 6y agoNYT has a map showing the states as squares with roughly the same concept. Generally speaking, hex maps work a lot less well for the US because you have to pick between either extremely heavy distortion (to the point of meaningless abstraction), or a massive gap in the Plains and Rockies. https://simonrogers.net/2016/09/22/tilegrams-make-your-own-cartogram-hexmaps-with-our-new-tool/ https://simonrogers.net/2016/09/22/tilegrams-make-your-own-c... The UK's population density is not quite so comically varied; a hex map of the UK still kind of resembles the UK.
- lambertsimnel 6y agoThanks for your reply. The link especially was fascinating.