This project was built to visualise the preference tickets in the Senate during the 2013 Federal Election. It was a collaboration betwen the OpenAustralia Foundation and The Global Mail with data from Below The Line. The project is being open-sourced so that it can be reused in future elections.
Please make sure you understand the limitations of this visualisation before using it. It is a simplified model of preference deals and it doesn't take into account factors such as split tickets. The dynamic physics engine also means that the distance between the parties may change with interaction.
Please submit a github issue if you have any questions.
This visualisation opens showing Australia’s relative political relationships this election — the closer two parties are in their preference deals, the closer they appear to each other — and vice versa.
Click on any party and watch its preferences flow in (numbered) order underneath. (Notice some skipped numbers? The party above must have several candidates.)
Where a party splits its ticket, it shows up like circle with diagonal lines. This visualisation uses the first ticket only. Visit http://belowtheline.org.au for more detail on how the other tickets would play out. For psephologist Antony Green's guide, read http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2013/08/voting-below-the-line-in-the-senate.html.
To learn how this data is like the Eurovision Song Contest, read https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/2013/08/26/an-experiment-in-visualising-preferences/.
Oh, and just for fun, whip them around and show them who’s boss in a democracy.
npm install
bower install
Concept: Matthew Landauer - OpenAustralia Foundation
Interactive Developers: Pat Armstrong, B.J. Rossiter and Nikhil Sonnad
Researcher: Clare Blumer
NGC 5189: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
GPLv3, see the LICENSE file for full details.