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On mapping polling places #19

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nickeubank commented 3 years ago

Generally, without some way to normalize by population, all "count" maps just become maps of the US population, so much so there's an xkcd for it:

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https://xkcd.com/1138/

To map meaningfully, you'll need to do something like calculate "polling places per person" for counties, then color counties by polling places per person.

nickeubank commented 3 years ago

To be clear, visualizing the spatial distribution of polling places is a great way to make sure your data is coherent any specified things well. it just doesn't do a very good job of telling you about where polling places are more or less available given the density of people.