I wasn’t too worried about reliability because the CCES is widely used and cited in a lot of papers. The AP had this vote cast data that I found in the middle of me working on this, and I played around with that, but the problem was it didn’t have all the questions I was interested in so I ended up not using it. I poked around with those, and I was looking for a large data set, and this one fit the bill and had a couple years of data. I had just been familiar with both of those and I wanted to use them with something but couldn’t come up with the right story. I ended up using the CCES (Cooperative Congressional Election Study) and the ANES (American National Election Studies). I had a bunch of versions of that and went to my editor, and he was like, “It’s kind of a perennial interest, how parties relate to demographic.” So we started chatting about it and he gave me some time for it.Ĭould you tell me about the process for the quiz, in terms of data sourcing, analysis, and visualization? I think I was just working on it with some free time I had, coming up with initial sketches, originally it was more of a flow chart than a tree, and I had a really intricate version of that, I was trying to play with it and work it into a form that seemed more reasonable. In talking about it with my editor and colleagues we were like how do we insert the reader into the story, and that’s where the idea for making the quiz came about. The quiz wasn’t the starting point, the starting point to me was the second graphic, that looks like a tree, that is where I started.
I think I was looking vaguely at survey data, some political science and statistics papers, and those came together. I was working on an earlier idea and Amanda Cox brought this idea to my attention and I had looked at some of her work. One is this idea of using a decision tree approach. This idea came about from a couple of different things mixing around in my head. Where did the idea for this story come from? in economics at Harvard University, Chinoy spoke with Storybench about how he found the best way to display the data and draw the reader in. The piece includes a quiz for the reader that predicts if they are a Democrat or a Republican, as well as a decision tree used to show all possible outcomes, and how the voting patterns of different groups have changed over time. Can your race, religion and education predict your political party affiliation? Last month, Sahil Chinoy, a former graphics editor for the opinion section of The New York Times, published an interactive quiz and accompanying article that laid out exactly how demographics influence the way Americans vote.
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