{"id":7319,"date":"2018-08-25T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2018-09-09T04:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T03:38:31","slug":"data-from-nyts-an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2018\/08\/data-from-nyts-an-extremely-detailed-map-of-the-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Data from NYT&#8217;s &#8220;An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT has a cool new dataviz called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/upshot\/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#3.64\/39.66\/-91.65\">An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-very-detailed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7320\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-very-detailed-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really, it&#8217;s just a more detailed version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/president\">their initial county election page<\/a> which I previously scraped the data from. So I had a quick look to see if it was easy to get the data behind it. Seems the answer is &#8216;yes&#8217;. Here&#8217;s the files:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYT-2016-election-precincts-data.zip\">NYT 2016 election precincts data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT has a cool new dataviz called An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election. Really, it&#8217;s just a more detailed version of their initial county election page which I previously scraped the data from. So I had a quick look to see if it was easy to get the data behind it. Seems the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1946],"tags":[244,875,2227],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science","tag-data","tag-nyt","tag-web-scraping","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}