Visualizations with D3.js - US Map with County Data

Visualizing and communicating data is extremely important in data science and is often misleading. During the 2020 election, the general public was flooded with maps showing predicted voting results. However, the vast majority of these focused on geography rather than population or even number of electors.

Here is my attempt at a method to visualize population more accurately (at the county rather than the state level) for voting, unemployment and population data. I created this interactive graphic using D3.js and with python to pull in and clean US Census, MIT Election Lab, and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.