Vote Impact: Visualizing the Influence of a Vote
My Role
Designer, Programmer, Researcher
Methods
Literature Review
Tools
HTML, CSS, Javascript
Timeframe
3 days
Team
Just me!
Vote Impact is a site made to show the relative power of a vote for a legislator in US elections on a year when the president is being voted on vs a mid-term election. It was made in response to the results of the 2016 presidential elections and for a seminar on information visualization.
Brief
Prototype an information visualization on a topic of your choice. I recruited a group of students who were also interested in the topic of persuading people to vote.
Solution
An interactive map that uses brushing to reveal information about relative vote power to sit in the center of a series of visualizations. The argument pieces were 1. People don’t vote 2. Since people don’t vote your vote can be worth more 3. Legislators are important.