Seeing Red, Blue, and Purple - What We Can Learn From Election Maps

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A wide range of election maps are in your immediate future. What you learn from those maps depends, in part, on how they are designed. Indeed, election maps and other types of maps can change our attitudes toward issues. In this 15-second tip, I recommend that you invest an additional couple of minutes watching The New York Times’ excellent slide show on how election maps can fool you. It will help you to be both a better consumer and designer of maps.

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