Tag: voter registration

Analytics – helping your ‘dots’ tell their story

Does your data just look like a bunch of dots? Would you like to bring those dots to life so they can tell their story? This example shows how to make some voter-registration dots a bit more lifelike, so you can see what they’re saying. You can apply t…

Data wrangling – down the rabbit hole, and back again!

Are your friends passing around clever memes (supposedly) featuring something your favorite actor said, or sharing news articles that you think might be “fake news”? If there’s even a hint of data analyst in you, then you probably check the actual data, and confirm or disprove the supposed facts yourself. I […]

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Purging inactive voter registrations in North Carolina

After the recent presidential election, I was updating my graphs of the voter registration data and noticed that the number of registered voters decreased after the election. At first I thought that was odd, but then I realized that maybe inactive voters were being purged. I wanted to find out […]

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Female voters outnumber males in North Carolina

Since this is an election year, I’ve been scrutinizing the voter registration data. One thing that surprised me is there are more female voters registered in NC than males. I wondered if this was consistent across all 100 counties, and created some charts to help visualize the data… First I went […]

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