Luke McKinstry, Author at Azavea

This Month We Learned – February 2020

By Alex Lash, Luke McKinstry and Tai Wilkin on March 18th, 2020

This month we learned about principled ad hoc style variation with variants, handling too-big-for-memory data with Dask, and keeping long-term projects objective in mind while designing solutions.

Photo of California roads and mountain range in the background.

Spatial Analysis

Local Redistricting is Transforming California Cities

By Luke McKinstry on February 27th, 2020

Redistricting is happening across cities in California in an effort to make representation more equitable. View our map to see where this is happening and why.

Picture of countryside road side-by-side a torn aerial cityview.

Spatial Analysis

Exploring the Urban-Rural Divide through Politicians’ Social Media

By Luke McKinstry on July 23rd, 2019

In this blog we look at how urban-rural differences play out in the way elected officials adopt social media and hope to shed light on this supposed wedge in a divided country.

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Make an Election Calendar with D3.js and Observable Notebooks

By Luke McKinstry on May 14th, 2019

We made a quick election calendar using the Cicero database and Observable Notebooks. This tutorial shows how you can replicate using D3.js.

Visualizations of various state elected officials stacked on top of one another.

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New Elected Officials, Visualized

By Luke McKinstry on February 25th, 2019

We gathered elected official data from all across the country after the 2018 U.S. midterm election. We show shifting party structure and contact methods.

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What We’re Reading in Advance of the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections

By Luke McKinstry on October 31st, 2018

With the 2018 U.S. midterm elections fast approaching, we thought we would share some interesting election related reading from around the web.