A TEAMe project (Daniel Chung, Edward Lee, Henry Koelling)
This website allows users to easily search regions of the United States, whether a county, state, or the nation at large, and view the distribution of their votes from the 2016 presidential election.
- Language: Python 3.8, JavaScript
- Framework: Flask
- Hosting: PythonAnywhere, running uWSGI
- Database: MySQL. Made trivial migration from PostgreSQL to eliminate hosting fees
👩🏫 teachers passionate about history- or political science-related subjects
👩🎓 students interested in American government or political science
👩💻 campaign managers for candidates running for political offices
💑 relocating homeowners and families who consider the local political climate when looking at a home
👶 newly eligible voters for local, state, and federal elections
- Whet the appetite for more knowledge particularly for educators interested in 2016 voting tendencies.
- Present reliable data and visual representations students can trust.
- Graphically display key voter distributions to conduce successful campaign strategies.
- Make navigation quick and easy for homeowners and heads of households with someplace to be.
- Be generally appealing to positively influence public curiosity in local politics.
- Search for voter information based on geographic location (country, state, county)
- Search for voter information based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background
- Option to view data in different styles and outputs (graphs, maps, spreadsheet/table)
- Streamlined access to citation/bibliographic information
- Graphics have the option to switch to a colorblind friendly scheme
- Search/Browse feature easily navigable
- Graphs clear and uncluttered, without unnecessary correlations or trends
- Graphics have appropriate legends
- Graphics have appropriate color differentiation between different variables
- Clearly indicate what each visualization represents
SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election (ICPSR 36853)
Prysby, Charles, Scavo, Carmine, and American Political Science Association. SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-10-25.