Party Tracker: Visualizing Changes in Party Affiliation over Time
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چکیده
Information visualization has become an increasingly important issue for political and social sciences with the accumulation of large amount of data from various sources. In this paper, we present PartyTracker, a new visualization tool that allow user to analyze the long-term party affiliation survey data from people with different demographic background across the United States. To visualize this large multivariate dataset, PartyTracker combines techniques of both geographic visualization and time series data visualization. The user can switch between a “map” view and a “time” view to explore different aspects of the data. Usability testing and expert review has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this tool. The outcome of this work provides an interactive way to visualize the historical changes of party affiliation, which will inform future work of partisanship and generate insights that are interesting for general public.
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