Following the primary election and vote on amendment one in North Carolina, I saw a huge number of hastily created maps passed around online depicting the counties for or against amendment one. These maps however, failed to tell a very complete story. The picture was painted very black and white. Either a county was for or against.

Yes, this was the way the votes were tallied. True, it very much was a pass or fail issue. Still, I wanted to understand the distribution better. News outlets discussed age and party affiliation being factors, so I found the data pertaining to this as well.

With all this compiled I created a map depicting the shades of gray existing between what had been presented as a completely black and white issue. This map is shown below. Further, if you click on any of the counties, a popup displays metrics including median age and voter turnout. Two pie graphs are also included in the popup, one depicting the ratio between those for and against the amendment and another depicting the party affiliation in the county. Continue reading →

Although I recall reading about it a few months ago, it was interesting this morning to see the actual data this morning depicting when Chrome overtook Firefox as the second most popular browser on GlobalStats. This however is not the most interesting part of this graph. The most interesting part is how Chrome has steadily continued to grow and if trends continue, how Chrome will overtake Internet Explorer as the most popular browser as early as next May or June of this year.