Luke McKinstry, Author at Azavea - Beyond Dots on a Map

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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.

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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.

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Cleaning Address Data for Legislative District Matching

By Luke McKinstry on September 17th, 2018

This tutorial will teach you how to quickly and easily clean bulk lists of addresses for address to legislative district matching.

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Visualizing Turbulence in Politics using Cicero Data

By Luke McKinstry on July 19th, 2018

The last 4 years have been a turbulent period in government in the United States at the local, state and...