Pop-Up Dashboard for 2008 Election Results

Topic: The Times Uses a Pop-Up Dashboard for its Election 2008 Dashboard.

The New York Times site is known for its strength with information visualization and use of the information dashboard paradigm. It goes without saying that The Dashboard Spy constantly monitors them for new uses and presentations of business intelligence dashboards.

Today, Election Day 2008, we need the nytimes.com site using what they call a “Pop-Up Dashboard”. Take a look at this screenshot and you’ll see a home page blurb touting the New York Times Election 2008 Dashboard: “Monitor live election results with the Times’s Election 2008 Dashboard”. I have not seen the calling of a little dashboard via a pop-up link. Maybe I just never thought of it because I always like to feature big, full-page dashboards, but this idea is interesting. Imagine being able to call up different little focused popup dashboards during the course of your visit. Interesting.

What do you think?

New York Times Election 2008 Dashboard

Click on the image below to launch the Pop-Up Dashboard. Note that live results don’t start until 6 PM eastern time.

POP-UP DASHBOARD

Here’s a screen capture of the NY Times Election Dashboard from after the election:

NY Times Election dashboard

Here is a live election results map from Google:

And here is a recent survey of different political dashboards.

Political Dashboards

Tags: Election Dashboard, Political Dashboard, Pop-Up Dashboard, New York Times Visualization, NY Times Dashboard

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2 Responses to “Pop-Up Dashboard for 2008 Election Results”

Robert A. Said on November 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am quote
Hmm … interesting idea. I’ve been toying with the idea of using “popups” for more detailed graphs, and just so happen to have an election example:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd9/elect08b.htm

You can either look at the tree-map, or scroll down to the traditional US map. When you mouse over the states, you’ll get a popup showing that state shaded by county, showing how each county voted. At first I was going to include the popup map *and* more graphs & info, but when the popup was too big it kinda got in the way (I’m not sure what’s the “optimum” amount of info to show in the popup).

It’ll probably work best if you use Internet Explorer, and if you have popups disabled you might have to hold down the Ctrl+ key the first time you mouse over a state, to allow the popups.

Of course, I wouldn’t really call mine a “dashboard”, but rather just an election map

Here’s a link to some info about the plot, and the SAS code, if you’re interested:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd9/elect08_info.htm
http://robslink.com/SAS/democd9/elect08b.sas
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