One of the big projects we tackled at VPAP in 2020 is Virginia's redistricting process. With a Redistricting Commission in charge of trying to create new districts, we've been able to visualize and help people make sense of draft plans. I built the front-end code for the maps and charts in this multi-page web application.
Visualizations
![Thumbnail showing Younkin winning the GOP nomination for governor.](/images/gop-convention-results.png)
In 2020, The Virginia GOP decided to run a multi-round, ranked-choice election where delegates' votes were weighted based on where they lived. Despite having only a week to design and build the pages, we created a live election results page. I built the front-end code in d3 and Svelte, as well as much of the server-side code in Django.
![Graphic showing that Latinos form a disproportionate percentage of COVID-19 cases in every corner of Colorado.](/images/covid-disparity-graphic.png)
I conducted an analysis and reported most of the interviews for a story showing that Latinos formed a disproportionate rate of COVID-19 cases in every region of Colorado. I also built a graphic displaying the results, using Svelte
and a tiny bit of d3
.
![Graphic showing the percentage of times Hickenlooper and Gardner used the word 'Chuck Schumer'](/images/political-email-words.png)
I conducted an analysis and wrote a story about how Senate candidates John Hickenlooper and Cory Gardner used more partisan language in their emails than they did in their campaigns. The pattern is a common feature of campaign emails, which are geared toward a partisan base.
![Line graph showing the rise in testing and confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, from less than 1,000 tests and 118 confirmed cases on March 4 to over 1 million tests and over 180,000 confirmed cases by March 31.](/images/covid-snapshot.png)
Coronavirus cases have been growing rapidly in the United States, from only around 100 positive tests across the entire country on March 4 to over 5,000 less than two weeks later.
Some of that growth is because testing has become much more available. But the disease itself also poses an enormous threat, holding the potential to overwhelm our health care system.
Using data from the COVID Tracking Project, see how positive and total test results have grown across the country since March 4.