More on Poll Data Visualisation: The Guardian Poll Projection

In Week 1 of Data Visualisation I looked at different examples of poll data visualisation. This week I discovered The Guardian’s Election 2015 Poll Projection. This is a collection of interactive visualisations attempting to predict the outcome of the May 2015 General Election based on polling data. It covers: What are the polls saying today? […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Learning from the Pros: Poll Data Journalism

Visualising polling data is a particularly relevant example given we are less than 100 days away from a general election and one that is a) surrounded by uncertainty around party dynamics b) one of the first in the UK that can draw on more widely practiced and sophisticated data analysis and design techniques. The election […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Playing with Crayons to Visualise Political Data

Our final activity and first design challenge this week was to bring all of the week 1 themes and techniques together to create a visualisation for some tabulated political data from the BBC poll of polls. Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Other parties 2015 32% 34% 7% 27% 2014 31% 39% 9% 21% 2013 31% 43% […]