{"id":1790213,"date":"2021-02-23T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790213"},"modified":"2021-02-23T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:09:34","slug":"field-releases-dot-density-map-for-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/field-releases-dot-density-map-for-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Releases Dot Density Map for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kenneth Field. Creative Commons licence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenneth Field has released a dasymetric dot density map of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. One dot equals one vote. \u201cData at a county level has been reapportioned to urban areas. Dots are positioned randomly.\u201d It\u2019s in the same vein as his 2016 map, which went all kinds of viral when he posted it in early 2018. A high-resolution downloadable poster is here<\/a>; an interactive version is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: Kenneth Field\u2019s Dot Density Election Map<\/a>; Kenneth Field\u2019s Dot Density Election Map Redux<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenneth Field has released a dasymetric dot density map of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. One dot equals one vote. \u201cData at a county level has been reapportioned to urban areas. Dots are positioned… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[1361,1167,158],"class_list":["post-1790213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-us-elections","tag-dot-density-maps","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785085,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/kenneth-fields-dot-density-election-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790213,"position":0},"title":"Kenneth Field’s Dot Density Election Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this week, Kenneth Field posted a quick-and-dirty dasymetric dot density map of the 2016 U.S. presidential election results to Twitter. 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