This US election has brought with it high tensions, unfounded fraud allegations and, most importantly, some great visualisations. Well, important to data scientists at least. It seems like you can’t look anywhere without seeing some novel way of presenting election results. So why not add a few more to the mix? In this tutorial, you will learn how to create some of your own visualisations using Python.

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You will learn how to create two interactive choropleths of US presidential election results from 1976 to 2016. The first map has a time slider. As you move the slider, the map will change to show the results in each state for a given year. For the second map, every state has been turned into a button. You can click the state to see voting trends through time. We’ll go over the code and you can find the full project on GitHub. You can also download the maps here. You should be able to open and explore them in your browser.

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