{"id":1368843,"date":"2018-01-08T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1368843"},"modified":"2018-01-08T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:51:36","slug":"xkcds-2016-election-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/xkcds-2016-election-map\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd’s 2016 Election Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Randall Munroe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The maps that appear from time to time on xkcd are usually a lot more whimsical than the one Randall posted today: his somewhat belated “2016 Election Map<\/a>” assigns one figure for every 250,000 votes for each of the 2016 presidential election candidates.\u00a0As Randall says in the alt text,<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> “I like the idea of cartograms (distorted population maps), but I feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds\u2014not great for showing geography OR counting people. And on top of that, they have all the problems of a chloro… chorophl… chloropet… map with areas colored in.” This is an issue that election map cartographers regularly have to deal with, as many of my readers know well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The maps that appear from time to time on xkcd are usually a lot more whimsical than the one Randall posted today: his somewhat belated “2016 Election Map” assigns one figure for every 250,000 votes… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[713,158,273],"class_list":["post-1368843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-politics","tag-2016-us-elections","tag-usa","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4505,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/06\/xkcds-relativistic-election-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1368843,"position":0},"title":"xkcd’s Relativistic Election Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 June 2017","format":"image","excerpt":"I'm surprised it took as look as it did for physics and cartography to collide\u2014relativity and choropleth maps\u2014in an xkcd cartoon.","rel":"","context":"In "Unusual Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Unusual Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/unusual-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/election_map.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1789802,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/xkcds-2020-election-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1368843,"position":1},"title":"xkcd\u2019s 2020 Election Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 December 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"xkcd did another map thing, so I have to post about it; it\u2019s a rule. 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