Visualizing Election Data Using Tableau

Tutorial Title: Visualizing Election Data Using Tableau Desktop

(2016 Presidential Election Data by VTD in Texas)

(Works with Tableau Public)

https://researchguides.baylor.edu/tableau-election

Description: Generate interactive maps and scatter plot visualizations to explore the relationships between the 2016 Presidential election and demographic data as well as geography.

Included Data:

• Texas Legislative Council: Redistricting (https://tlc.texas.gov/redist/data/data.html)
  • VTD-Level Election Returns
  • VTD Shapefile
• Social Explorer (http://ezproxy.baylor.edu/login?url=http://www.socialexplorer.com/)
  • 2016 ACS 5-Year Demographic Data downloaded by Census Block Group
  • ArcGIS Desktop used to summarize data by VTD using Area-Weighted Spatial Join Method