Link Collections: Data Visualization (Election Edition)
Visualizing Election Data
Waves of Interest traces Google search interest in a wide-ranging number of issues in U.S. election years.
Blueprint 2024 is a public opinion research initiative focused on analyzing and identifying strategies for the Democratic Party to secure victories in the 2024 elections. Obviously, these strategies didn't work out too well for the Dems.
FiveThirtyEight uses data visualizations to cover news, politics, sports, and culture with in-depth statistical analyses and interactive charts. Founded by Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight gained prominence for its data-driven approach to political forecasting and analysis. FiveThirtyEight is known for its rigorous methodology and commitment to transparency, often sharing the data and code behind its analyses to allow readers to explore and verify findings independently.
Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform where participants trade on the outcomes of real-world events. The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election marked a pivotal shift in how we talk about and understand real-world events. Once seen as controversial, Polymarket demonstrated an uncanny accuracy in predicting the election's outcome, outperforming traditional pollsters and exposing the biases and limitations of legacy media narratives. The 2024 election proved a defining moment for engaging with unfolding events—one driven by decentralized market insights rather than conventional wisdom. The repudiation of outdated methods was clear: Polymarket and its competitors didn't just react to the election or predict it, they redefined how we understand the future.