Pretty Maps
This week, my happiness about Elizabeth Warren running for Senate in Massachusetts...
(transcript here)
...combined with this (funny? offensive? certainly clever, certainly reductive) t-shirt for sale at Threadless Tees...
(click on it to enbiggen; you can buy it here)
...combined with my recent perusal of maps because I'm going on vacation next week to a part of the country I barely know at all...
(no picture for that one, sorry -- though maybe there will be once I get back!)
... all got me searching the internets for something I'd remembered seeing once before. I found it. It was created by Mark Newman in the Department of Physics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Here it is:
What is that purple monstrosity?
Well, many of you will recognize this:
It's the results of a USA presidential election (in this case, 2008). Blue is for Democrat, red is for Republican; each state is colored either red or blue to represent which party the majorit…
(transcript here)
...combined with this (funny? offensive? certainly clever, certainly reductive) t-shirt for sale at Threadless Tees...
(click on it to enbiggen; you can buy it here)
...combined with my recent perusal of maps because I'm going on vacation next week to a part of the country I barely know at all...
(no picture for that one, sorry -- though maybe there will be once I get back!)
... all got me searching the internets for something I'd remembered seeing once before. I found it. It was created by Mark Newman in the Department of Physics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Here it is:
What is that purple monstrosity?
Well, many of you will recognize this:
It's the results of a USA presidential election (in this case, 2008). Blue is for Democrat, red is for Republican; each state is colored either red or blue to represent which party the majorit…
