3 Views of Senate is a political data visualization that uses dynamic typography and a zoomable interface to tell a story about the makeup of the United States Senate, prior to the then-upcoming 2004 elections. In particular, senators are presented by party, by year of next re-election, and by state. The story that emerged from the data was an open-ended one: could the Democrats retake the Senate?
3 Views of US Senate uses data scraped from Project Vote Smart, an online political database; a robot was written in Python to accomplish this. The visualisation itself was designed in Adobe Illustrator and implemented in Processing. A Java-enabled web browser is required to view this piece.
COLLABORATORS
Lisa Strausfeld
DEMO
{ Launch 3 Views of Senate }
001 / Views by Party (left) and Re-election year (right).
002 / Detail zoom of Party View (left). Abstract geography (right).
003 / Senator text interpolates to new positions when the active view changes.